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ls, gives me all directories
ls -trh, gives me all directories sorted by date (newest last)
ls -dtrh */ | tail -1, gives me name of latest directory (by date)
Is it possible to somehow incorporate the ls and cd commands, so I could navigate to the latest directory. Something logically equal to ls -trh | tail -1 | cd, but working.
Petro Semeniuk
Posted 2010-12-10T02:46:00.600
Reputation: 153
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cd "$(ls -trh | tail -1)"
This uses the output of the the ls|tail pipeline as the command-line arguments to cd.
EDIT: camh is correct that this should give better performance, because head won't go through the lines you're ignoring.
cd "$(ls -th | head -1)"
Matthew Flaschen
Posted 2010-12-10T02:46:00.600
Reputation: 2 370
3I'd suggest instead of reverse sorting and using tail, you use a normal sort and use head. That way it processes less data: cd $(ls -th | head -n 1) (I know the OP used -r|tail, but we can improve on that) – camh – 2010-12-10T03:28:59.263
@camh, good suggestion. – Matthew Flaschen – 2010-12-10T03:34:42.253
Protect the command substitution with double quotes, or else it won't work when the directory contains spaces. – marco – 2011-01-22T12:12:20.527
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solution using backticks:
cd `ls -th | head -1`
Naytzyrhc
Posted 2010-12-10T02:46:00.600
Reputation: 121
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I have done an alias for my own use:
alias cdu='cd $(ls -rtd */ | tail -1)'
this will put you in last modified/created directory in your position.
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Use this simple command:
cd `ls -t`
The character <`> is a backtick character. Not an apostrophe.
This will go to the latest directory. Try it.
Neilvert Noval
Posted 2010-12-10T02:46:00.600
Reputation: 357
It will probably not, and is more likely to return a "too many arguments" error. I say probably, because it will work if a single directory is in the current-dir. – ocodo – 2011-01-22T13:05:51.170
It also gives you files. You can't cd to a file. – gbarry – 2010-12-10T03:08:38.760
Migrate this question to Super User? – Peter Mortensen – 2011-01-22T09:47:21.147