how can find directory - bash

Question

when starting the tcl script a directory is created via a bash command. at the end of my script i want to read the directory name of the latest dirs. but my script does not find the newest directory but only the 2nd newest
bind pub "-|-" !aa pub:aaa
proc pub:aaa {nick host handle channel arg} {
set home "/home/user"
set bb [exec bash -c "start.sh"]
after 3000
set latest [exec bash -c "ls -td $home/jpg/*/ | head -n1"]
putnow "PRIVMSG $channel :$latest"
}
before starting it has the following folders in the directory:
drwxr-xr-x 2 user user 4096 Jun 24 18:30 aaa
drwxr-xr-x 2 user user 4096 Jun 24 18:14 bbb
after starting it has the following folders in the directory
drwxr-xr-x 2 user user 4096 Jun 24 18:30 aaa
drwxr-xr-x 2 user user 4096 Jun 24 18:14 bbb
drwxr-xr-x 2 user user 4096 Jun 24 18:35 ccc
output is :
<#testbot> aaa
it should be so
<#testbot> ccc
he finds the directory created during which the tcl script is not running
how can I display the newest, newly created directory?
regards

Answer 1

Instead of trying to exec out to a shell to find the most recently modified directory, I'd do it in pure tcl:
proc latest_directory {path {time mtime}} {
set dirs {}
foreach dir [glob -nocomplain -type d $path/*] {
file stat $dir s
lappend dirs $s($time) $dir
}
if {[llength $dirs] == 0} {
error "No directories found in $path"
} else {
return [lindex [lsort -integer -decreasing -stride 2 $dirs] 1]
}
}
# Then in pub:aaa
set latest [latest_directory $home/jpg]
As for why you're not getting ccc... hard to say for sure without seeing your start.sh script, but if it ends up running stuff in the background that continues after it exits, maybe it takes more than 3 seconds to create that directory?