Run a script on all recently modified files in bash - bash

Question

I would like to:
Find latest modified file in a folder
Change some files in the folder
Find all files modified after file of step 1
Run a script on these files from step 2
This this where I've end up:
#!/bin/bash
var=$(find /home -type f -exec stat \{} --printf="%y\n" \; |
sort -n -r |
head -n 1)
echo $var
sudo touch -d $var /home/foo
find /home/ -newer /home/foo
Can anybody help me in achieving these actions ?

Answer 1

Use inotifywait instead to monitor files and check for changes
inotifywait -m -q -e modify --format "%f" {Path_To__Monitored_Directory}
Also, you can make it output to file, loop over it's contents and run your script on every entry.
inotifywait -m -q -e modify --format "%f" -o {Output_File} {Path_To_Monitored_Directory}
sample output:
file1
file2
Example
We are monitoring directory named /tmp/dir which contains file1 and file2.
The following script which monitor the whole directory and echo the file name:
#!/bin/bash
while read ch
do
echo "File modified= $ch"
done < <(inotifywait -m -q -e modify --format "%f" /tmp/dir)
Run this script and modify file1 echo "123" > /tmp/dir/file1, the script will output the following:
File modified= file1
Also you can look at this stackoverflow answer