How to write a powershell script file that receives a file with the latest last write time from a folder?

Question

The topic line says it all. I would also like to do this with pipes.

I decided that I could use Get-ChildItem, Measure-Object and Where-Object, but Measure-Object does not like dates.

Should I have a script block that moves through each element returned from Get-ChildItem, and does the comparison perform to find out if this is the last? I thought that for this there should be a convenient PS cmdlet.

Answer 1

Get-ChildItem | Sort LastWriteTime -Descending | Select -First 1