Re: Finding the newest directory

From: Ben Morrow (usenet_at_morrow.me.uk)
Date: 05/13/04 

Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 03:09:51 +0000 (UTC)

Quoth sholden@cs.usyd.edu.au:
> On Wed, 12 May 2004 22:52:42 -0400, sc0ri0n <sc0ri0n@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > If I have a bunch of directories and files (sun solaris). Is there a way to
> > find the newest directory (last one created not modified)?
>
> No (unless you are using a funky non-standard file system).
>
> Creation time is not tracked by the filesystem.
>
> You have (most recent) access time, modification time, and
> file status time. File status time (ctime) is as close as
> you'll get, but it is set by other operations that change
> the file status (such as chmod(), link(), unlink(), etc.)
>
> stat gives you access to the ctime.

...and you'll likely want File::Find to do the searching.

OTOH, you could probably do this more easily with find(1).

Ben 

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