Re: Shell script help - get date of last modified file in hierarchy

• Subject: Re: Shell script help - get date of last modified file in hierarchy
• From: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>
• Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 07:31:41 -0400
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You would need ls -tR, and even then I don't think that works.  I'm
not at a computer, but iirc the sorting options to ls  only affect how
each directory's immediate children are listed, rather than sorting
the whole hierarchy.

At 10:27 PM -0400 3/26/07, Mark Walsh wrote:
>
>I'm looking for a simple shell script to get the modification date of the
>last modified file in a folder's complete hierarchy.
>
>I'm trying to write a script to make sure that when a job is written to our
>server, that I can make sure it has the most recent files. I already have
>shell scripts that check the count of files in the hierarchy (as well as
>logging the filepaths) and I would like to add a warning if it does not
find
>the same date for the last modified files in each folder.
>
>Any help would be greatly appreciated.

There are certainly several ways.

Personally, I would use do shell script "ls -t" to get the last
modified file first, and maybe I would use AppleScript's "info for"
to get the modification date if needed.

Emmanuel
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