How to open the last folder irrespective of name on Bash

I’m currently working with a program that creates a folder with a time stamp and puts some files into it.

I want to write a script to automate retrieval of the file from last or second last folder by alphabetical order.

How do I do this on bash?

Image for reference. I want to retrieve a file from the 18-38 folder or the 17-45 folder.

>Solution :

I want to write a script to automate retrieval of the file from last or second last folder by alphabetical order.

cd path/to/02-March-2022

last_dir=$(printf '%s\n' */ | sort | tail -n 1)
second_last_dir=$(printf '%s\n' */ | sort -r | sed '2!d; 2q'

• You can remove or add sort’s -r to switch between Nth newest and Nth last.