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I want to search for one or few files with latest modified date in a big directory. Trying some PowerShell code but it does not work well for me.
Get-ChildItem 'D:\Temp' | Sort-Object LastWriteTime I know that I can use -Recurse to search in all directories. But how to:
Limit just some files
Order in descending mode
Do not list directory
Thanks for your help!
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Open File Explorer and navigate to the location where your files are stored. Sort files by Date Modified (Recent files first). Hold Shift key and click on the Name column. This will bring folders at the top with files sorted with Date Modified.
The 'ls' command lists all files and folders in a directory at the command line, but by default ls returns a list in alphabetical order. With a simple command flag, you can have ls sort by date instead, showing the most recently modified items at the top of the ls command results.
Using the stat command, we can also control the output by the -c FORMAT option. There are two formats to display the mtime: %y – displays time of last data modification in a human-readable format. %Y – displays time of last data modification in number of seconds since Epoch.
ls command ls – Listing contents of directory, this utility can list the files and directories and can even list all the status information about them including: date and time of modification or access, permissions, size, owner, group etc.
Select-Object -first 10 Sort-Object LastWriteTime -Descending Where-Object { -not $_.PsIsContainer } So to combine them together, here an example which reads all files from D:\Temp, sort them by LastWriteTime descending and select only the first 10:
Get-ChildItem -Force -Recurse -File -Path "C:\Users" -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue | Where-Object { $_.CreationTime.Date -lt (Get-Date).Date } | Sort CreationTime -Descending | Select-Object -First 10 CreationTime,FullName | Format-Table -Wrap If you love us? You can donate to us via Paypal or buy me a coffee so we can maintain and grow! Thank you!
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