As a follow up to this, I've found that many distros now have a package called inotify-tools that brings the inotify API function to the command line. Nice job Linux community! I know I'll get flamed for this, but windows also has several inotify APIs. Anyone have a lead on a set of inotify-tools like command line utilities for windows? Thanks all. --- Wayne Johnson, | There are two kinds of people: Those 3943 Penn Ave. N. | who say to God, "Thy will be done," Minneapolis, MN 55412-1908 | and those to whom God says, "All right, (612) 522-7003 | then, have it your way." --C.S. Lewis ----- Original Message ---- From: Leif Johnson <leif.t.johnson at gmail.com> To: Wayne Johnson <wdtj at yahoo.com>; tclug <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Sent: Wednesday, January 9, 2008 10:27:20 PM Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Finding the date of the newest file in a directory tree > Anyone know of a quick and easy way to find the date of the newest file in a directory tree. What kind of systems do you want to be doing this on? If it's linux with a kernel version of >= 2.6.13 you might (if it was enabled in the kernel) have inotify available. For a complete description see google, but simply inotify allows a program to watch the file system for events. So you could make a simple process to watch your tree for appropriate events (file modifies etc.) and keep track of what is most recent. leif ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20080115/3ed0ea54/attachment.htm