find newest file

[Dj_Jestar]

I've got a restore script for restoring the latest .tar.gz of some directories, but the script we're using parses output from

ls -1t

and takes the first line. Just wondered if there was a straight up command for finding newest file.

Ta.

 

[Dj_Jestar]

We're already using:

ls -1t /path/ | head -1

which works better Was just wondering if there was a "hidden" ls option or something.