Use Hazel to Schedule Single File Transfer

Here what I want to do is to move the oldest file from folder A to folder B at a specified time every day.

Simply because of perfectionism of lhunath’s answer in Stack Overflow, yes, I wasted over an hour trying to do this using find command.

Explainshell.com is crazy.

After googling, I came up with gfind * -printf '%p\n' | sort | head -n1 with output 1.txt [I touch 1.txt first, then touch 2.txt; touch is a bash command that create a new file]. But I couldn’t pass 1.txt output to mv command. (-printf option is not available in OS X’s find so I need to brew install findutils to install gfind where g- prefix stands for GNU.)

And later I had find * -exec ls -t {} | tail -n1 {} \; -exec mv {} ~ \; with the following output:

find: -exec: no terminating ";" or "+"
tail: {}: No such file or directory
tail: ;: No such file or directory
tail: -exec: No such file or directory
tail: mv: No such file or directory
tail: {}: No such file or directory
==> /Users/henry <==
tail: ;: No such file or directory

THIS IS CRAZY!!!

Finally I went back to the method looked down upon by the “professionals”.

mv "`ls -t | tail -n1`" /Users/henry/Desktop/B

where -t means listing in the descending order (for date and time, it means 2014 is before 2013); tail to select the last (first/one) item, according to -n1, of the list; so ls -tr | head -n1, where -r means reverse, equals to ls -t | tail -n1.