I'm trying to recover the latest version of a file: mylist.txt

I'm using rsnapshot for backups and I realized I lost this file for some reason, perhaps a month or two ago. I'd like to recover the latest version of the file but there are so many directories it's a bit daunting... I'm guessing the find command is the right tool, but unsure of how to use it with the right syntax to get the file with the latest [last modified?] date (or largest size?).

Maybe something like: find . -type f -name "myfile.txt" but not sure how to use it to get the latest one (or the largest one).

I read the man page for find and tried a few things to no avail... and googled but only found folks searching for latest files, not the latest version of a specific file... This box is running ubuntu 20.04.

Thank you all in advance! 🙏

Have you tried using the grep command instead?

https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-...r-text-string/

or maybe the locate command

https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/find-f...d-filesystems/

Here is find choices by date created

https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-...files-by-date/

Good luck.

With rsnapshot, the file will be in the same directory it is in on the source…use find to list them…the latest one will be in the most recent snapshot in which it exists.

To expand on that a little:
Only you know how your snapshot is setup, but you need to look in the most recent directory created - say /backups/daily.0/... (that's a zero). Then the /backups/daily.1/... which is the previous backup taken. Keep looking.

find . -maxdepth 1 -mtime -1

Taken from this link: https://unix.stackexchange.com/quest...a-date-with-ls