Comments on: Find the latest or newest modified file in a folder or directory with Perl http://www.haidongji.com/2008/06/25/find-the-latest-or-newest-modified-file-in-a-folder-or-directory-with-perl/ 季庄新闻--Haidong Ji's Blog Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:52:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Haidong Ji http://www.haidongji.com/2008/06/25/find-the-latest-or-newest-modified-file-in-a-folder-or-directory-with-perl/#comment-14570 Haidong Ji Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:06:46 +0000 http://www.haidongji.com/2008/06/25/find-the-latest-or-newest-modified-file-in-a-folder-or-directory-with-perl/#comment-14570 That's really cool: grep for files, and then take the first line, I learned something already! Google is good, but sometimes a live and breathing expert can cut through the noise and point you to the right direction. Thanks! The script I wrote was intended primarily for work on Windows. I am digging the here document, along with variable interpolation to generate some cool sql script. Thanks for sharing! That’s really cool: grep for files, and then take the first line, I learned something already!

Google is good, but sometimes a live and breathing expert can cut through the noise and point you to the right direction. Thanks!

The script I wrote was intended primarily for work on Windows. I am digging the here document, along with variable interpolation to generate some cool sql script.

Thanks for sharing!

]]> By: Daniel Howard http://www.haidongji.com/2008/06/25/find-the-latest-or-newest-modified-file-in-a-folder-or-directory-with-perl/#comment-14567 Daniel Howard Fri, 27 Jun 2008 20:25:10 +0000 http://www.haidongji.com/2008/06/25/find-the-latest-or-newest-modified-file-in-a-folder-or-directory-with-perl/#comment-14567 You can also use ls -t: <code> 0-13:19 djh@ratchet ~> <b>ls -lt | grep ^- | head -1</b> -rw-r--r-- 1 djh djh 7477585 Mar 30 14:38 djh_wordpress-2008-03-30.sql </code> You can also use ls -t:


0-13:19 djh@ratchet ~> ls -lt | grep ^- | head -1
-rw-r–r– 1 djh djh 7477585 Mar 30 14:38 djh_wordpress-2008-03-30.sql

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