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Tip #882 /

Find last modified files on a filesystem


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To find the last modified files in a directory you can use ls -ltr. To find the last modified file on a file system it will not work, but the following command will work: 

find /etc -type f -printf "%T@ %T+ %p" | sort -n


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Rob Hutten
#1
Nice one.  I had to add a \n after the %p, though.
Posted 2009-09-15 11:01:36
Magnus
#2
Yes, I also had to add '\n'.  I also piped through 'sort -rn|head' to limit the output.  It's also possible to speed things up by using the test '-cnewer' in 'find'.  Just picking any file in the directory your searching.  If you don't get any output you've managed to pick the most recent modified file.
Posted 2009-09-16 00:30:55
jargon
#3
sudo find /etc -type f -printf "%T@ %T+ %p \n" | sort -n | less
Posted 2009-09-20 06:51:15
MacThunder
#4
Why so complicated?
I am used to:

find . -type f -mtime 0
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