On Thu, Nov 18, 2021 at 07:26:51AM +0100, Michael J. Baars wrote: > So now we have a relation for 'older than' and for 'newer than', but how > about 'oldest' (executable), and 'newest' (executable)?
https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/099 The bot in libera's #bash also has this factoid for it: Find the latest modified file in a directory: latest() { local file latest; for file in "${1:-.}"/*; do [[ $file -nt $latest ]] && latest=$file; done; printf '%s\n' "$latest"; } ## Usage: latest [dir] > I could only come up with this: > > unset y; for x in $(find bin -mindepth 1 -name "*"); do if [[ ${x} -nt ${y} > ]]; then y=${x}; fi; done; echo newest: ${y}; That $(find) construct won't work for files with whitespace in their names. See <https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashPitfalls#pf1>. The -name "*" bit is also kind of silly. Apart from that, the basic premise (loop over all the files) is correct.
