Curious as I am (because I've no clue how to find the 'newest' file, or even how to define what the 'newest' file is), I clicked on the link. I somewhat expected to find how to find the file which was modified last (which, BTW, is something totally different from "newest"). But not even that. For me, the first link explained how to find the largest file,

Well, this article does indeed talk about finding the largest file, and then at the end says

So it explains how to sort files by date instead of size, and how to reverse the order. With a bit of thinking it's not too hard to combine those.

Oh, and I just assumed that "last file" meant something like "file with the latest creation timestamp".

this article (first hit on my other google query) explains how to obtain a creation date for a file.

Combine the wisdom of these articles should solve the OP's problem.

Your Google must be better than mine. Do you have the Platinum account?

It's not Google that's different.

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In reply to Re^5: File creation and last modifiication time by moritz
in thread File creation and last modifiication time by mecrazycoder

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