I'm sure the solution to this problem is going to be really obvious, or not very obvious at all ...

I'm writing a batch process that needs to pluck the most-recently-created file from a directory on a remote machine ... copying the file is no problem ( because I can exec scp or whatever ) - the problem is -IDENTIFYING- the file.

Each file in this dir has a unique name - like FILENAME.$timestamp.TXT - but timestamp is in epoch seconds and is very difficult to predict exactly what the value of $timestamp will be on a given day (this is a file pushed to us by one of our partners.)

SO - is there a way I can simply identify the most recently created file on this remote machine in a secure way? I have to use ssh and scp to do it ... can't make it available on the network any other way ...



-mr.dunstan

In reply to ssh/scp most recent file? by mr.dunstan

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