How to find one the latest modified file in directory and subdir?

Question

How to find the latest one modified file by "find" command in directory and subdir ? I need take only one file.

Answer 1

In Linux you can use

find . -type f -printf "%TY-%Tm-%Td %TT %p\n" | sort | tail -n 1

That'll list all files (-type f) and print those with timestamps, then sort and print only last one.

If you don't want to print timestamp too, you can use

find . -type f -printf "%TY-%Tm-%Td %TT %p\n" | sort | tail -n 1 | cut -d " " -f 3-