type f -printf %p\n" | sort -n | cut -d' ' -f 2- | tail -n 1 Output. type f -exec stat -lt "%Y-%m-%d" \+ | cut -d' ' -f6- | sort -n | tail -1įor Other Linux Based OS − find. Now since the output of the ls command is not that big, we can manually compare all the times that the files in the above directory were updated on, and get the most recently updated file, but this approach won’t work if we have huge numbers of file as it will be more tedious to go through the times of all the files present in thatĪ better approach is to make use of the command shown below. rw-r-r- 1 immukul staff 0 Jul 15 09:44 sample 1.txtĭrwxrwxrwx 4 immukul staff 128 Jul 15 10:27 d2 rw-r-r- 1 immukul staff 122 Jul 14 16:10 somefile.txt rwxrwxrwx 1 immukul staff 24 Jul 14 15:52 sss.sh rw-r-r- 1 immukul staff 661 Jul 14 09:00 newZip.zip
rwxrwxrwx 1 root staff 718 Jul 12 18:48 sample1.shĭrwxr-xr-x 2 immukul staff 64 Jul 13 11:36 dr1ĭrwxr-xr-x 3 immukul staff 96 Jul 13 11:36 dr2 rwxrwxrwx 1 root staff 946 Jul 12 18:45 sample.sh rwxrwxrwx 1 root staff 106 Jul 8 13:10 sample2.sh rwxrwxrwx 1 immukul staff 446966 wget-1.5.3.tar.gzĭrwxrwxrwx 3 immukul staff 96 Jul 7 17:42 d1 Now we know how the find statement works, let’s explore the case where we want to use the find command to find the latest file that has been updated in a directory.Ĭonsider a directory named dir1 that contains the following files in it. Notice that if the find command is able to locate the file then it will simply print the name of the file, if not then it will not return anything the terminal process will terminate.
#Find file in directory code
In the linux code shown below I am trying to search for a file inside my Downloads folder, and for that I am making use of the find statement.
Let’s explore an example of a find statement to understand it better. It is used to mostly find a specific file or directories and we can also append different other Linux statements or flags along with it to enhance or do a complex operation. Linux find statement is one of the most widely used statements that allows us to walk a file hierarchy.
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