Powershell Get-ChildItem most recent file in directory

Question

We produce files with date in the name     below is the wildcard for the date  I want to grab the last file and the folder that contains the file also has a date month only  in its title   I am using PowerShell and I am scheduling it to run each day   Here is the script so far      LastFile     DailyFile    compareDate    Get-Date  AddDays -1     LastFileCaptured   Get-ChildItem -Recurse   Where-Object   LastFile LastWriteTime                  -ge  compareDate

User · Answer

You could try to sort descending  sort LastWriteTime -Descending  and then  select -first 1   Not sure which one is faster

User · Answer

Yes I think this would be quicker  Get-ChildItem  folder   Sort-Object -Descending -Property LastWriteTime -Top 1

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If you want the latest file in the directory and you are using only the LastWriteTime to determine the latest file  you can do something like below   gci path   sort LastWriteTime   select -last 1   On the other hand  if you want to only rely on the names that have the dates in them  you should be able to something similar  gci path   select -last 1   Also  if there are directories in the directory  you might want to add a   -not    PsIsContainer

[powershell] Powershell Get-ChildItem most recent file in directory

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