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In Linux I know this command to find and list the latest modified files in a directory with all its subdirectories.



find /var/www/ -type f -exec stat --format '%Y :%y %n' {} ; | sort -nr | cut -d: -f2- | head


Is there a Windows CLI equivalent?






windows-7 windows command-line filesystems







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  • are you looking for only modified files? Or are you looking at all files?

    – Keltari
    Feb 2 '13 at 17:25








  • 1





    I'm sure PowerShell can do this far more easily than batch, but if you absolutely must use the latter... Try dir /a-d /o-d /tw /s (show files only, order by date descending, use last write time for sorting, recurse into subdirs). However this will list all files. To limit the list to n latest modified files only, use dbenham's brilliant solution here.

    – Karan
    Feb 2 '13 at 17:43











  • A couple of comments on the Linux command: (1) Instead of -exec, you might want to consider xargs. (2) If you, as you say, want to sort an entire directory (sub)tree by modification date (and then look at the newest N), then what you have is reasonable. But if you can get the information you need by finding all files modified in the last N days, look at find … -mtime ….

    – Scott
    Feb 2 '13 at 20:41






  • 2





    To add to my previous comment, you can also look into forfiles /s /d +<date>.

    – Karan
    Feb 2 '13 at 23:22
















10















In Linux I know this command to find and list the latest modified files in a directory with all its subdirectories.



find /var/www/ -type f -exec stat --format '%Y :%y %n' {} ; | sort -nr | cut -d: -f2- | head


Is there a Windows CLI equivalent?






windows-7 windows command-line filesystems







share|improve this question

























  • are you looking for only modified files? Or are you looking at all files?

    – Keltari
    Feb 2 '13 at 17:25








  • 1





    I'm sure PowerShell can do this far more easily than batch, but if you absolutely must use the latter... Try dir /a-d /o-d /tw /s (show files only, order by date descending, use last write time for sorting, recurse into subdirs). However this will list all files. To limit the list to n latest modified files only, use dbenham's brilliant solution here.

    – Karan
    Feb 2 '13 at 17:43











  • A couple of comments on the Linux command: (1) Instead of -exec, you might want to consider xargs. (2) If you, as you say, want to sort an entire directory (sub)tree by modification date (and then look at the newest N), then what you have is reasonable. But if you can get the information you need by finding all files modified in the last N days, look at find … -mtime ….

    – Scott
    Feb 2 '13 at 20:41






  • 2





    To add to my previous comment, you can also look into forfiles /s /d +<date>.

    – Karan
    Feb 2 '13 at 23:22














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In Linux I know this command to find and list the latest modified files in a directory with all its subdirectories.



find /var/www/ -type f -exec stat --format '%Y :%y %n' {} ; | sort -nr | cut -d: -f2- | head


Is there a Windows CLI equivalent?






windows-7 windows command-line filesystems







share|improve this question
















In Linux I know this command to find and list the latest modified files in a directory with all its subdirectories.



find /var/www/ -type f -exec stat --format '%Y :%y %n' {} ; | sort -nr | cut -d: -f2- | head


Is there a Windows CLI equivalent?






windows-7 windows command-line filesystems




windows-7 windows command-line filesystems






share|improve this question















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  • are you looking for only modified files? Or are you looking at all files?

    – Keltari
    Feb 2 '13 at 17:25








  • 1





    I'm sure PowerShell can do this far more easily than batch, but if you absolutely must use the latter... Try dir /a-d /o-d /tw /s (show files only, order by date descending, use last write time for sorting, recurse into subdirs). However this will list all files. To limit the list to n latest modified files only, use dbenham's brilliant solution here.

    – Karan
    Feb 2 '13 at 17:43











  • A couple of comments on the Linux command: (1) Instead of -exec, you might want to consider xargs. (2) If you, as you say, want to sort an entire directory (sub)tree by modification date (and then look at the newest N), then what you have is reasonable. But if you can get the information you need by finding all files modified in the last N days, look at find … -mtime ….

    – Scott
    Feb 2 '13 at 20:41






  • 2





    To add to my previous comment, you can also look into forfiles /s /d +<date>.

    – Karan
    Feb 2 '13 at 23:22



















  • are you looking for only modified files? Or are you looking at all files?

    – Keltari
    Feb 2 '13 at 17:25








  • 1





    I'm sure PowerShell can do this far more easily than batch, but if you absolutely must use the latter... Try dir /a-d /o-d /tw /s (show files only, order by date descending, use last write time for sorting, recurse into subdirs). However this will list all files. To limit the list to n latest modified files only, use dbenham's brilliant solution here.

    – Karan
    Feb 2 '13 at 17:43











  • A couple of comments on the Linux command: (1) Instead of -exec, you might want to consider xargs. (2) If you, as you say, want to sort an entire directory (sub)tree by modification date (and then look at the newest N), then what you have is reasonable. But if you can get the information you need by finding all files modified in the last N days, look at find … -mtime ….

    – Scott
    Feb 2 '13 at 20:41






  • 2





    To add to my previous comment, you can also look into forfiles /s /d +<date>.

    – Karan
    Feb 2 '13 at 23:22

















are you looking for only modified files? Or are you looking at all files?

– Keltari
Feb 2 '13 at 17:25







are you looking for only modified files? Or are you looking at all files?

– Keltari
Feb 2 '13 at 17:25






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1





I'm sure PowerShell can do this far more easily than batch, but if you absolutely must use the latter... Try dir /a-d /o-d /tw /s (show files only, order by date descending, use last write time for sorting, recurse into subdirs). However this will list all files. To limit the list to n latest modified files only, use dbenham's brilliant solution here.

– Karan
Feb 2 '13 at 17:43





I'm sure PowerShell can do this far more easily than batch, but if you absolutely must use the latter... Try dir /a-d /o-d /tw /s (show files only, order by date descending, use last write time for sorting, recurse into subdirs). However this will list all files. To limit the list to n latest modified files only, use dbenham's brilliant solution here.

– Karan
Feb 2 '13 at 17:43













A couple of comments on the Linux command: (1) Instead of -exec, you might want to consider xargs. (2) If you, as you say, want to sort an entire directory (sub)tree by modification date (and then look at the newest N), then what you have is reasonable. But if you can get the information you need by finding all files modified in the last N days, look at find … -mtime ….

– Scott
Feb 2 '13 at 20:41





A couple of comments on the Linux command: (1) Instead of -exec, you might want to consider xargs. (2) If you, as you say, want to sort an entire directory (sub)tree by modification date (and then look at the newest N), then what you have is reasonable. But if you can get the information you need by finding all files modified in the last N days, look at find … -mtime ….

– Scott
Feb 2 '13 at 20:41




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To add to my previous comment, you can also look into forfiles /s /d +<date>.

– Karan
Feb 2 '13 at 23:22





To add to my previous comment, you can also look into forfiles /s /d +<date>.

– Karan
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PowerShell 2.0



Latest 10 changed files



Dir C:folder -r | ? {! $_.PSIsContainer} | sort LastWriteTime | select -last 10


Changed files since given date



Dir C:folder -r | ? {! $_.PSIsContainer -AND $_.lastwritetime -ge '04/18/14'}



Read more on http://ss64.com/ps/






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  • If you just want to show the directories with modified files, do this. Dir d:sftp -r | ? {! $_.PSIsContainer -AND $_.lastwritetime -ge '05/25/2018'} |findstr Directory

    – Rob
    Jun 15 '18 at 12:05





















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dir c:windows /aa /s /O-D


Lists all the files with the archive attribute set (modified) in the c:windows folder and all its subfolders by date (newest first)



Edit: This method will only work if you clear the archive bits at some point or the list will just grow and grow.






share|improve this answer





















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    What does the Archive attribute have to do with recently changed files?

    – Karan
    Feb 2 '13 at 17:10






  • 1





    Everything. Any file that gets changed gets the archive attribute set by the OS. Thats how backup programs know that a file has changed and needs to be backed up.

    – Keltari
    Feb 2 '13 at 17:15








  • 2





    Your edit is extremely important. Files with +A already will see no change. Why not find some way to do this based on Date Modified?

    – Karan
    Feb 2 '13 at 17:24



















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Take a look at MT Directory Changes Watcher. May be it is right for your needs.




Program watches for file changes in particular directory (Watch
directory) and then copies changed files to another folder (Mirror
directory) saving directory structure. This can be very useful when
you have local copy of remote site and want to upload only files,
changed locally after last upload.




http://mito-team.com/projects/dcw






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    Latest 10 changed files



    Dir C:folder -r | ? {! $_.PSIsContainer} | sort LastWriteTime | select -last 10


    Changed files since given date



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    • If you just want to show the directories with modified files, do this. Dir d:sftp -r | ? {! $_.PSIsContainer -AND $_.lastwritetime -ge '05/25/2018'} |findstr Directory

      – Rob
      Jun 15 '18 at 12:05


















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    PowerShell 2.0



    Latest 10 changed files



    Dir C:folder -r | ? {! $_.PSIsContainer} | sort LastWriteTime | select -last 10


    Changed files since given date



    Dir C:folder -r | ? {! $_.PSIsContainer -AND $_.lastwritetime -ge '04/18/14'}



    Read more on http://ss64.com/ps/






    share|improve this answer
























    • If you just want to show the directories with modified files, do this. Dir d:sftp -r | ? {! $_.PSIsContainer -AND $_.lastwritetime -ge '05/25/2018'} |findstr Directory

      – Rob
      Jun 15 '18 at 12:05
















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    PowerShell 2.0



    Latest 10 changed files



    Dir C:folder -r | ? {! $_.PSIsContainer} | sort LastWriteTime | select -last 10


    Changed files since given date



    Dir C:folder -r | ? {! $_.PSIsContainer -AND $_.lastwritetime -ge '04/18/14'}



    Read more on http://ss64.com/ps/






    share|improve this answer













    PowerShell 2.0



    Latest 10 changed files



    Dir C:folder -r | ? {! $_.PSIsContainer} | sort LastWriteTime | select -last 10


    Changed files since given date



    Dir C:folder -r | ? {! $_.PSIsContainer -AND $_.lastwritetime -ge '04/18/14'}



    Read more on http://ss64.com/ps/







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    • If you just want to show the directories with modified files, do this. Dir d:sftp -r | ? {! $_.PSIsContainer -AND $_.lastwritetime -ge '05/25/2018'} |findstr Directory

      – Rob
      Jun 15 '18 at 12:05





















    • If you just want to show the directories with modified files, do this. Dir d:sftp -r | ? {! $_.PSIsContainer -AND $_.lastwritetime -ge '05/25/2018'} |findstr Directory

      – Rob
      Jun 15 '18 at 12:05



















    If you just want to show the directories with modified files, do this. Dir d:sftp -r | ? {! $_.PSIsContainer -AND $_.lastwritetime -ge '05/25/2018'} |findstr Directory

    – Rob
    Jun 15 '18 at 12:05







    If you just want to show the directories with modified files, do this. Dir d:sftp -r | ? {! $_.PSIsContainer -AND $_.lastwritetime -ge '05/25/2018'} |findstr Directory

    – Rob
    Jun 15 '18 at 12:05















    0














    dir c:windows /aa /s /O-D


    Lists all the files with the archive attribute set (modified) in the c:windows folder and all its subfolders by date (newest first)



    Edit: This method will only work if you clear the archive bits at some point or the list will just grow and grow.






    share|improve this answer





















    • 1





      What does the Archive attribute have to do with recently changed files?

      – Karan
      Feb 2 '13 at 17:10






    • 1





      Everything. Any file that gets changed gets the archive attribute set by the OS. Thats how backup programs know that a file has changed and needs to be backed up.

      – Keltari
      Feb 2 '13 at 17:15








    • 2





      Your edit is extremely important. Files with +A already will see no change. Why not find some way to do this based on Date Modified?

      – Karan
      Feb 2 '13 at 17:24
















    0














    dir c:windows /aa /s /O-D


    Lists all the files with the archive attribute set (modified) in the c:windows folder and all its subfolders by date (newest first)



    Edit: This method will only work if you clear the archive bits at some point or the list will just grow and grow.






    share|improve this answer





















    • 1





      What does the Archive attribute have to do with recently changed files?

      – Karan
      Feb 2 '13 at 17:10






    • 1





      Everything. Any file that gets changed gets the archive attribute set by the OS. Thats how backup programs know that a file has changed and needs to be backed up.

      – Keltari
      Feb 2 '13 at 17:15








    • 2





      Your edit is extremely important. Files with +A already will see no change. Why not find some way to do this based on Date Modified?

      – Karan
      Feb 2 '13 at 17:24














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    dir c:windows /aa /s /O-D


    Lists all the files with the archive attribute set (modified) in the c:windows folder and all its subfolders by date (newest first)



    Edit: This method will only work if you clear the archive bits at some point or the list will just grow and grow.






    share|improve this answer















    dir c:windows /aa /s /O-D


    Lists all the files with the archive attribute set (modified) in the c:windows folder and all its subfolders by date (newest first)



    Edit: This method will only work if you clear the archive bits at some point or the list will just grow and grow.







    share|improve this answer














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      What does the Archive attribute have to do with recently changed files?

      – Karan
      Feb 2 '13 at 17:10






    • 1





      Everything. Any file that gets changed gets the archive attribute set by the OS. Thats how backup programs know that a file has changed and needs to be backed up.

      – Keltari
      Feb 2 '13 at 17:15








    • 2





      Your edit is extremely important. Files with +A already will see no change. Why not find some way to do this based on Date Modified?

      – Karan
      Feb 2 '13 at 17:24














    • 1





      What does the Archive attribute have to do with recently changed files?

      – Karan
      Feb 2 '13 at 17:10






    • 1





      Everything. Any file that gets changed gets the archive attribute set by the OS. Thats how backup programs know that a file has changed and needs to be backed up.

      – Keltari
      Feb 2 '13 at 17:15








    • 2





      Your edit is extremely important. Files with +A already will see no change. Why not find some way to do this based on Date Modified?

      – Karan
      Feb 2 '13 at 17:24








    1




    1





    What does the Archive attribute have to do with recently changed files?

    – Karan
    Feb 2 '13 at 17:10





    What does the Archive attribute have to do with recently changed files?

    – Karan
    Feb 2 '13 at 17:10




    1




    1





    Everything. Any file that gets changed gets the archive attribute set by the OS. Thats how backup programs know that a file has changed and needs to be backed up.

    – Keltari
    Feb 2 '13 at 17:15







    Everything. Any file that gets changed gets the archive attribute set by the OS. Thats how backup programs know that a file has changed and needs to be backed up.

    – Keltari
    Feb 2 '13 at 17:15






    2




    2





    Your edit is extremely important. Files with +A already will see no change. Why not find some way to do this based on Date Modified?

    – Karan
    Feb 2 '13 at 17:24





    Your edit is extremely important. Files with +A already will see no change. Why not find some way to do this based on Date Modified?

    – Karan
    Feb 2 '13 at 17:24











    0














    Take a look at MT Directory Changes Watcher. May be it is right for your needs.




    Program watches for file changes in particular directory (Watch
    directory) and then copies changed files to another folder (Mirror
    directory) saving directory structure. This can be very useful when
    you have local copy of remote site and want to upload only files,
    changed locally after last upload.




    http://mito-team.com/projects/dcw






    share|improve this answer






























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      Take a look at MT Directory Changes Watcher. May be it is right for your needs.




      Program watches for file changes in particular directory (Watch
      directory) and then copies changed files to another folder (Mirror
      directory) saving directory structure. This can be very useful when
      you have local copy of remote site and want to upload only files,
      changed locally after last upload.




      http://mito-team.com/projects/dcw






      share|improve this answer




























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        Take a look at MT Directory Changes Watcher. May be it is right for your needs.




        Program watches for file changes in particular directory (Watch
        directory) and then copies changed files to another folder (Mirror
        directory) saving directory structure. This can be very useful when
        you have local copy of remote site and want to upload only files,
        changed locally after last upload.




        http://mito-team.com/projects/dcw






        share|improve this answer















        Take a look at MT Directory Changes Watcher. May be it is right for your needs.




        Program watches for file changes in particular directory (Watch
        directory) and then copies changed files to another folder (Mirror
        directory) saving directory structure. This can be very useful when
        you have local copy of remote site and want to upload only files,
        changed locally after last upload.




        http://mito-team.com/projects/dcw







        share|improve this answer














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