How to get 10 recent files in directories

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Aliyah

Hi,

How can I get a list of ten recent file in directories and
put it in a text file?

Can someone please provide some pointers?

Thanks in advance.
 
Here's a start. Redirect the output to a file, like
get10.cmd c:\work > get10.out


@echo off & setlocal enableextensions enabledelayedexpansion
set DIRCMD=
set x=1
for /f %%C in ('dir /b /o:-d %1') do (
if !x! gtr 10 goto :EOF
set /a x = x + 1
echo %%C
)
 
Aliyah said:
Hi,

How can I get a list of ten recent file in directories and
put it in a text file?

Can someone please provide some pointers?

Thanks in advance.
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<Win2000> c:\cmd>demo\Get10MostRecentFiles c:\cmd\demo\*.cmd

The ten most recent files matching 'c:\cmd\demo\*.cmd' are:
02/05/04 09:58p 369 Get10MostRecentFiles.cmd
01/31/04 08:16a 685 GetVariablesFromLastLine.cmd
01/31/04 08:07a 711 Mat.cmd
01/31/04 12:10a 75 RobStow.cmd
01/29/04 10:00p 248 NT40FullNameDir.cmd
01/27/04 10:00p 105 FindPathToFile.cmd
01/25/04 11:54p 290 DedupeFiles.cmd
01/21/04 09:48p 329 ShowShortFileName.cmd
01/20/04 10:18p 74 SpecialChars.cmd
01/14/04 06:45a 238 FiletoLowerCase.cmd

<Win2000> c:\cmd>rlist demo\Get10MostRecentFiles.cmd
=====begin c:\cmd\demo\Get10MostRecentFiles.cmd ====================
01. @echo off
02. setlocal
03. set counter=0
04. type nul > c:\temp\10MostRecentFiles.txt
05. for /f "tokens=*" %%a in (
06. 'dir /o-d %1 ^| find "/"'
07. ) do call :main %%a
08. echo/
09. echo/The ten most recent files matching '%1' are:
10. type c:\temp\10MostRecentFiles.txt
11. goto :EOF
12. :main
13. set /a counter+=1
14. if %counter% GTR 10 goto :EOF
15. echo %*>>c:\temp\10MostRecentFiles.txt
16. goto :EOF
=====end c:\cmd\demo\Get10MostRecentFiles.cmd ====================
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thanks Paul and Phil
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<Win2000> c:\cmd>demo\Get10MostRecentFiles c:\cmd\demo\*.cmd

The ten most recent files matching 'c:\cmd\demo\*.cmd' are:
02/05/04 09:58p 369 Get10MostRecentFiles.cmd
01/31/04 08:16a 685 GetVariablesFromLastLine.cmd
01/31/04 08:07a 711 Mat.cmd
01/31/04 12:10a 75 RobStow.cmd
01/29/04 10:00p 248 NT40FullNameDir.cmd
01/27/04 10:00p 105 FindPathToFile.cmd
01/25/04 11:54p 290 DedupeFiles.cmd
01/21/04 09:48p 329 ShowShortFileName.cmd
01/20/04 10:18p 74 SpecialChars.cmd
01/14/04 06:45a 238 FiletoLowerCase.cmd

<Win2000> c:\cmd>rlist demo\Get10MostRecentFiles.cmd
=====begin c:\cmd\demo\Get10MostRecentFiles.cmd ====================
01. @echo off
02. setlocal
03. set counter=0
04. type nul > c:\temp\10MostRecentFiles.txt
05. for /f "tokens=*" %%a in (
06. 'dir /o-d %1 ^| find "/"'
07. ) do call :main %%a
08. echo/
09. echo/The ten most recent files matching '%1' are:
10. type c:\temp\10MostRecentFiles.txt
11. goto :EOF
12. :main
13. set /a counter+=1
14. if %counter% GTR 10 goto :EOF
15. echo %*>>c:\temp\10MostRecentFiles.txt
16. goto :EOF
=====end c:\cmd\demo\Get10MostRecentFiles.cmd ====================
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Phil Robyn
Univ. of California, Berkeley

u n z i p m y a d d r e s s t o s e n d e - m a i l

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