Mac/Zsh-only: List new files recursively by date created within current directory. Displays relative dates.

new-files.sh

relative-date() {
  while read input_string; do
    local file_path=`echo $input_string | cut -d ' ' -f 5`
    local ls_date=`echo $input_string | cut -d ' ' -f 1,2,3,4`
    # Accepts date in format found in `ls` output, and converts to epoch
    local date="$(date -j -f "%d %b %H:%M:%S %Y" "$ls_date" +"%s")"
    local now="$(date +"%s")"
    local time_diff=$((now - date))

    if ((time_diff > 24*60*60)); then
      date_string=`printf "%.0f days ago" time_diff/((24*60*60))`
    elif ((time_diff > 60*60)); then
      date_string=`printf "%.0f hours ago" time_diff/((60*60))`;
    elif ((time_diff > 60)); then
      date_string=`printf "%.0f minutes ago" time_diff/60`;
    else
      date_string=`printf "%s seconds ago" $time_diff`;
    fi

    date_string=${(r:18:)date_string}

    echo "$date:$date_string:\e[32m$file_path\e[m\n"
  done
}
zle -N relative-date

function list-new-files() {
  find . -type f \
    -not \( -wholename './.git*' -prune \) \
    -not \( -wholename './tags*' -prune \) \
    -exec ls -lTU {} \; | rev | cut -d ' ' -f 1,2,3,4,5 | rev | relative-date \
      | sort -k 1 -r \
      | rev \
      | cut -d ':' -f 1,2 \
      | rev \
      | sed 's/://g'
}
zle -N list-new-files

function new-files() {
if [ "$1" != "" ]
then
  list-new-files | head -n "$1"
else
  list-new-files
fi
}