Copying newest n files from remote

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#1

Is there any way to filter "newest n files from remote"? Can't use --*-age filters because I don't know beforehand when the newest file is actually changed.

rclone v1.45
- os/arch: linux/386 (CentOS 6)
- go version: go1.11.2
- remote: Google Drive

Thanks!

#2

Ancient version of rclone so you'd want to upgrade that.

You can use filters on anything so a local source or a remote. If it's on a remote, if has to support modtime to get the age so there are some caveats. On google drive, you'd be fine though.

#3

Hmm....

You could probably use rclone lsf... How about this to find the 10 newest files on remote:

rclone lsf -R -F tp --files-only remote: | sort -r | head -n 10 | cut -d ';' -f2-

Once you've found them, put them in a file and use rclone copy --files-from file remote: /local

#4

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