> I was wondering what the actual command was to get a report of the > modification time of the newest file in a directory tree. > > I assume that it is super fast compared with the "find" methods we had > been working on. inotify only receives current events. To find the newest file in an existing tree you would need to use find (or similar). With inotify you can watch a tree for changes. I haven't used the inotify-tools package so I have no idea what command you would need to use. If you are monitoring a file system, inotify will be worlds faster than a find approach. leif