Want the last version of a file: ls -rt|tail -1
How do you do that with find?
Yes, I do find 'ls' is nice for just quickly listing a directory in a chosen order. To do the same thing in 'find' you'd probably want to couple it with a sort, eg find . -type f -printf "%T+/%p\n" | sort | tail -1 The 'find' is more verbose, but the benefit is that you could use it as part of a pipeline and it works better if there are hierarchical directories. For example, as the start of further processing (and dealing with newlines in file names by using 0 terminators): find . -type f -printf "%T+/%p\0" | sort -z | cut -z -d '/' -f 2- | ... ie, print ordinary files with timestamp, sort, remove the timetamp, etc regards, Glenn -- pgp: 833A 67F6 1966 EF5F 7AF1 DFF6 75B7 5621 6D65 6D65