CODEWITHSUNDEEP
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Reputation: 47

Get latest modification date of sub-folders of each folder in bash shell

I need to get the top 3 files having the latest date of modification of a sub-folders of each folder of a main folder.

The script should go through each of every sub folder of the specified main-folder and list the files having the latest date of each sub folder of the main-folder.

This script gets the latest modification date of a folder taking into consideration all the sub-folders

find /path/ -exec stat \{} --printf="%n %y\n" \; | sort -n -r | head -3

But I need to iteration through sub-folders of the main-folder to get a list of folders and filenames having the earliest date of modification of each folder.

for folder in MAINFOLDER
do
find ***folder*** exec stat \{} --printf="%n %y\n" \; | sort -n -r | head -1
loop

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1839

Answers (1)

jkshah
jkshah

Reputation: 11703

Something like this?

#!/bin/bash
for folder in MAINFOLDER/*
do
   find "$folder" -exec stat \{} --printf="%n %y\n" \; | sort -n -r | head -3
done

Upvotes: 1

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