Is there a teminal command to get the most recently created file or folder?

Question

I often need to do something like command most_recently_created_file_or_folder from the terminal. I'd appreciate any help.

Answer 1

If you're running Zeitgeist you could use the following script:

#! /usr/bin/env python

from zeitgeist.client import ZeitgeistDBusInterface
from zeitgeist.datamodel import Event, Interpretation, TimeRange, \
 StorageState, ResultType

zg = ZeitgeistDBusInterface()
events = zg.FindEvents(
 TimeRange.always(),
 [Event.new_for_values(interpretation=Interpretation.CREATE_EVENT)],
 StorageState.Any, 1, ResultType.MostRecentEvents)

last_event = Event(events[0])
last_subject = last_event.get_subjects()[0]

print last_subject.uri

Answer 2

You can use the find command, or fileschanged if you need to do it dynamically. The answers to a similar recent question may also help.

Answer 3

The command history will print a list of the last (500 or so depending on the settings) commands that were executed in the shell.

you can do history |grep mkdir to search for any new directories made. However it will only work if the directory was made explicitly (i.e. by the user) and in the shell.

Answer 4

command "`ls -c1 | head -n1`"

will run command on the most recently created file in the current working directory. Different quoting or escaping may be required for your shell.