script to pick the most recent file created in a folder in a distributed system?

script to pick the most recent file created in a folder?

The scenario is as beloow:

I have to pick the 2 files which are created recently and开发者_Go百科 i have to copy it to another folder. What script can be used to perform this in a distributed system?

Have you considered to use powershell? It's a great tool for this kind of tasks

gci c:\source | ? {-not $_.psiscontainer} | 
sort-object creationtime -desc | select -first 2 | copy-item -destination c:\destination

This script searches only files within a specified folder, then it sorts files in reverse order by creation time, retrieves only the 2 more recents and finally copy them in you destination folder. Very simple with a short code. Hope that it helps.