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Re: Opening the newest file in a folder
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Re: Opening the newest file in a folder


  • Subject: Re: Opening the newest file in a folder
  • From: Philip Aker <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2007 11:06:50 -0800

On 2007-12-14, at 14:59:14, Mark J. Reed wrote:

What they said. There's no reliable way after the fact to find out which file in a folder was put there most recently.  If no file has ever ever been (re)moved from the folder since the folder was created, you can use the directory order (do shell script "ls -f"), but that is very fragile.

I wonder if last access time would suffice?

paragraphs of (do shell script "cd ~/Desktop;ls -tu")


Philip Aker
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