GotoNewestFile in a folder

[wanderer]

I searched a little but i couldn't find anything related. It would be nice if an internal command (perhaps with a default shortcut - CTRL+SHIFT+N?) existed to place the selection cursor on the newest file in a folder.

Currently this can be achieved by sorting by Date, selecting the first file and then change the sort again to what it was before. With this internal command, if one assigned it to a shortcut, this could be achieved in one step.

There could also be other related commands, like GotoOldestFile, Goto LargestFile, GortoSmallestFile, although i'm not sure they would be as useful as GotoNewestFile.

[MVV]

Use button or user-command:

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Command: %ComSpec%
Parameters: /k "for /f "usebackq delims=" %%f in (`dir /b /a-d /o-d`) do start "" "%%COMMANDER_EXE%%" /O /S /L="%%~ff" & exit"
Start path: <empty!>

By playing with dir sorting flags you can also jump to oldest, largest, smallest file etc. You can get all flags by executing dir /? in Windows console. Also additional /tc parameter allows sorting by creation date instead of modify date.

[wanderer]

Ha. I had implemented this and forgotten about it for a while (MVV, many thanks BTW) but i just discovered something. If the folder i'm in contains subfolders and files, this command selects the newest subfolder instead of a file and then it enters in it!

[MVV]

If you have /o-d flag for dir command, it shouldn't list subfolders, please check your batch.

[wanderer]

For some reason, the bold part from here ('dir /b /a-d /o-d') was missing. It now works almost perfectly. I don't know why but it does not work in the root path of the drive, but since i don't put any files there personally i don't care.

Thanks MVV.

[MVV]

You're welcome.

Strange, it works for me in a drive root too.

[Horst.Epp]

It works fine here even in any drive root
Tested with TC 8.01 x86 and x64 under Windows 7 Ultimate x64

[wanderer]

I found out why it doesn't work! The newest file in my C: drive is pagefile.sys, which is hidden. I've set TC to NOT show hid/sys files, so...

[MVV]

BTW method really can't work if newest file isn't visible.

Also I think there may be problem if newest file is an archive... So following workaround may be used: /L="%%~ff\:" instead of just /L="%%~ff".

[wanderer]

So following workaround may be used

Yup, it works perfectly. Thanks a lot for the help.