Listing the Newest Files

Files can be used through displaying the most recently changed or created files first, through using the ls -t command.

Here

# ls -t [directory]

-t                      - sorts listings through latest time stamp first and

Directory        - refers to the directory which is to be searched.

Consider the given example to listing the newest files

The given example displays how to use ls -t to locate the most present files inside the /var/adm directory. sulog, messages, , and lastlog were made or edited most recently. That is verified using output from ls -l, which displays that these three files were created or edited in March, although the other files in /var/spool were edited or created earlier.

# ls -t /var/adm

sulog                wtmpx             wtmp               messages.11    vold.log           spellhist

messages         utmp                sa                     messages.12    log                   aculog

utmpx              lastlog              messages.10    messages.13    acct                  passwd

# ls -l /var/adm

total 686

drwxr-xr-x       5          adm     adm     512      Feb      14        16:20   acct

-rw---       1          uucp    bin       0          Feb      14        16:04   aculog

-r-r-r-       1          root      other    8456    Mar      28        10:34   lastlog

drwxr-xr-x       2          adm     adm     512      Feb      14        16:36   log

-drwxr-xr-x     2          adm     adm     512      Feb      14        16:03   passwd

drwxr-xr-x       2          adm     sys       512      Mar      21        06:59   sa