fetch the newest file in a directory.

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I would like to get the most recent file, in a specific directory, from remote nodes:

I am thinking about running a command similar to:

ls -lrt /tmp/backup |tail -1 | awk '{print $9}

then putting the results of that in the fetch command.

Any suggestions? Does this seem like a good path?

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I think this is you only option since Ansible doesn't have any modules to do this, but you can make it a little shorter by removing -l.

ls -t /tmp/backup | head -1
or
ls -tr /tmp/backup | tail -1

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You can do 2 steps, first run the find module in that directory, then using the map filter, sort by mtime and use the last filter to get the most recent file.