Output Latest File by Modification Date Using Bash find Command

Introducing how to filter and output the latest file by modification date using the find command in Linux Bash command line.

I tried to do it with ls, but

ls -Rtald "/mnt/c/Users/user/OneDrive/ドキュメント/ShareX/Screenshots/" | head -n 11

it got complicated, and actually I couldn’t do it.

You can do it with find.

find "/path" -printf '%T+ %p\n' | sort -r | head -n 1

2018-09-02+04:24:51.0869511000 /mnt/c/Users/user/OneDrive/ドキュメント/ShareX/Screenshots/2018-09/ShareX_ScreenShot_b3e5c560-30ec-48b2-9d1f-b943a0d5e9bb.png

This outputs the date, so

find "/path" -printf '%T+ %p\n' | sort -r | head -n 1 | sed -Ee "s/^.*(\/mnt.*\.(jpg|png))/\1/g")

You can change the output like this.