Find most recently created or modified image(file)

[mooner]

Hi everyone, I have a question: Suppose there's a folder containing a large number of PNG images — say, around 10,000 files. What's the best way to get the name of the most recently created or modified image in that folder? Is there a faster method?

[Neil Pate]

Have you tried this? The `last mod` output should hopefully give you the timestamp of the last modification, and it would then be pretty simple to find the latest.

I have no idea what the performance of this would be if you loop over 10000 files. That is something you would just have to try.

 

[Neil Pate]

Done some simple testing.

On a directory containing 838 files it took 60 ms.