Getting file called latest to download

Sorry, but I had to downvote, and I'll give you the courtesy of explaining reasons why. The biggest reason is that it is not using python not cross-platform thus broken unless ran under Windows. Secondly, this is not a "faster method" unless faster means quick-and-dirty-not-bothering-to-read-docs --shelling out to another script is notoriously slow.

MarkHu Actually this script was born out of the necessity to check a large folder's content quickly from a python script. So in this case faster method means, gets the file name of newest folder the fastest or faster than a pure python method.

Feel free to add a similar script for linux, probably based on ls -Art tail -n 1. Please evaluate the performance of a solution before making claims about it. This fails on 0 length files under Windows AlexFink AlexFink 41 4 4 bronze badges. The Overflow Blog. Who owns this outage? Building intelligent escalation chains for modern SRE.

Podcast Who is building clouds for the independent developer? Featured on Meta. Now live: A fully responsive profile. Reducing the weight of our footer. Linked 0. See more linked questions. Right-click the downloaded file or the in-progress download in the torrent client. The context menu will have an option called open containing folder, or something similar.

Clicking it will open the folder that the downloaded file is in. This will push the found files that were created recently to the top of the results. Alternatively, you can try limiting the date of the files included in the search but this only works if you have a good idea when you downloaded the file.

ToString Here path is my string variable to hold the directory path value. Else, use Path exist activity to ensure the download completed.

I finally be able to get what i want by passing this as the criteria in the filename however your solution helped me to determine the latest excel file name in the folder and I am able to continue the process with that file Thank you. Download a file from the web with random name and rename into a folder. Sign Up Log In. Please let us know what other tutorials you'd like to see there. Stay informed about special deals, the latest products, events, and more from Microsoft Store.

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Skype Free. Connect and share knowledge within a single location that is structured and easy to search. The other questions I could find were refering to an older version of Boto. I would like to download the latest file of an S3 bucket.

Unfortunately I only managed to set up a connection and to download a file. Could you please show me how I can extend my code to get the latest file of the bucket? Thank you. From here I dont know how to get the latest added file from a bucket called mytestbucket.

There are various csv files in the bucket but all of course with a different name. Variation of the answer I provided for: Boto3 S3, sort bucket by last modified. You can modify the code to suit to your needs. If you have a lot of files then you'll need to use pagination as mentioned by helloV. This is how I did it. This is basically the same answer as helloV in the case you use Session as I'm doing.

This handles when there are more than objects in the s3 bucket.