Script help
James Pifer
jep at obrien-pifer.com
Fri Sep 19 21:19:21 UTC 2008
On Fri, 2008-09-19 at 14:08 -0700, Dennis Kaptain wrote:
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>
> > > Can anyone rattle this off of the top of their head?
> >
> > `ls -t myfile*.txt | head -1` might work for you.
> >
> > >
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> ls -t by itself may give you more than one filename per line.
> Use ls -t1
> that will assure you get only one file name output from head.
Thank you. I've tested and added your suggestion.
James
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