Find the recent downloaded repo from GitLab

Question

I'm downloading my code from my private repo. When the download is finished using the following command :

wget -O project.tar.gz https://gitlab.com/api/v4/projects/1/repository/archive?private_token=XXXXXXXXXXXXX

I end up with an archive :

project.tar.gz

Which I extract

tar -zxf project.tar.gz

And it gives me the following folder :

project-master-97fe635dc27fb89bd16e3448bf6915420

But I have an older downloaded folder in the same path, so I have :

folder
│
└─── project-master-97fe635dc27fb89bd16e3448bf6915420
|
└─── project-master-28ba625ab48ac14bd25c7119aa9511271

I have the following command to find the folder :

find /path/ -name "project-master-*"

But its output me 2 results :

/path/project-master-97fe635dc27fb89bd16e3448bf6915420
/path/project-master-28ba625ab48ac14bd25c7119aa9511271

I would like to output only the most recent repo version :

/path/project-master-97fe635dc27fb89bd16e3448bf6915420

Answer 1

Don't use find for this. You should use ls for sorting by modification time and head to pick the newest one:

$ ls -dt /path/project-master-* | head -1

ls -dt lists directories (not their content), and sorts them by modification time.

Solution works for directories without spaces and/or other special characters.