Tag: sort

  • Find latest file in a directory methods

    Sometimes there are so many files in a directory that it’s hard to find the last file in the directory. We show you here 2 ways for finding it out.

    With awk we print the last argument of the last line:

    $ ls -lrt | awk '{ f=$NF }; END{ print f }'

    Reverse ordering with ls and then getting the first line:

    $ ls -t1 | head -n1