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Bash alias to get the last modified file in a directory
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# Naive NOT-FOR-PRODUCTION method. Fails for filenames that contain newlines.
alias lastmod="ls -t | head -n 1"
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adamesque commented Oct 17, 2011

ls -t: List the files in the directory sorted by mod date

head -n 1: Print the first 1 line of the input (default is 10)

I'm working through the K&R book, keeping all the examples and exercises in separate files. I use this to make it easier to compile whichever source file I most recently touched: cc lastmod``, because I am extremely lazy.

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tkaemming commented Oct 17, 2011

since you're writing the file names, this probably won't be a big deal, but you may want to read this: http://mywiki.wooledge.org/ParsingLs

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adamesque commented Oct 17, 2011

Ha! You know, I really ought to know better; I fixed that exact same bug in node: nodejs/node-v0.x-archive@7f30f13

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