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Re: Help: Bash script that show you the last file created?


From: Mike Frysinger
Subject: Re: Help: Bash script that show you the last file created?
Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2009 19:55:15 -0500
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On Sunday 15 February 2009 10:32:15 tal396 wrote:
> hey, i created a backup dir that created backup every hours...
> there is any way to get the last file that created  that is fomat is  *.sql
> ?
> thats what i've  done, but its not working so well...
>
>
>  cd "/home/server/backups/local_backups/" ; find -type d | find .  -name
> '*.sql' |  tac | tail -1;

why not just use `ls` and one of its sort options ?  the ls man page documents 
how to sort by creation time
-mike

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