Recursively find the n latest modified files in a directory
Posted by Kelvin on 18 May 2011 at 09:51 am | Tagged as: programming, Ubuntu
Here's how to find the latest modified files in a directory. Particularly useful when you've made some changes and can't remember what!
find . -type f -printf '%T@ %p\n' | sort -n | tail -1 | cut -f2- -d" "
Replace tail -1 with tail -20 to list the 20 most recent files for example.
Courtesy of StackOverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4561895/how-to-recursively-find-the-latest-modified-file-in-a-directory
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