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kovidgoyal · 12-10-2009, 08:00 PM

Here's a BASH command line to do that

calibredb list | tail -n2 | head -n1 | cut -f1 -d " "

calibredb list by default sorts on timestam which means the last entry will have the id of the last added book

12-10-2009, 08:00 PM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,930 Karma: 22669822 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Here's a BASH command line to do that calibredb list \| tail -n2 \| head -n1 \| cut -f1 -d " " calibredb list by default sorts on timestam which means the last entry will have the id of the last added book