Bash script to find and display oldest file

Question

I\'m trying to write a script that will display the name of oldest file within the directory that the script is executed from.

This is what I have so far:

Answer 1

The following oneliner finds the oldest file in the whole subtree and reports it using the long format and relative full path. What else could you ever need?

ls -ltd $(find . -type f) | tail -1