brian r stuckey » bash http://www.ineedcaffeine.com/content Startups & Caffeine Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:23:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= I need a little tech help… http://www.ineedcaffeine.com/content/uncategorized/i-need-a-little-tech-help/ http://www.ineedcaffeine.com/content/uncategorized/i-need-a-little-tech-help/#comments Fri, 14 Nov 2008 01:21:35 +0000 Brian Stuckey http://www.ineedcaffeine.com/content/?p=86 How can I, using only command line tools, find the newest .jpg file in a given directory? I would like to use that in part of a cron job so I can copy images from my moblog to a common directory with my Word Press instillation.

Basically:

  1. find the matching image
  2. cp /moblog /content/images/latest.jpg
  3. embed /content/images/latest.jpg in one of my posts
  4. execute steps 1 & 2 via cron

Anyone know how to pull this off?

EDIT:

The basic command is: mv `ls -tr | tail -1` ../hereitis.jpg

EDIT2:
Here is the answer

curl http://www.ineedcaffeine.com/moblog/SCRIPT.php
cd /YOURFULLPATHHERE/moblog/images
cp `ls -tr | tail -1` /YOURFULLPATHHERE/moblog.jpg
convert /YOURFULLPATHHERE/moblog.jpg -resize 400×400 YOURFULLPATHHERE/moblog_resized.jpg

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