Re: Script help

[Mike Wright <mike wright mailinator com>]

James Pifer wrote:
> I've been googling to find ways of doing this but I'm not finding what
> I'm looking for. I think this should be fairly easy, so I'm hoping a
> script guru out there can tell me what I need.
>
> I have some files that are all named like:
> myfile387465893495643658734.txt
> myfile547647453645635632454.txt
> myfile563546356243546767546.txt
> myfile465565634678567345656.txt
> myfile456674567452345566345.txt
>
> I need to find all files that start with 'myfile', end in .txt Then I
> need to find the most recent version and use it in a command.
>
> Can anyone rattle this off of the top of their head?

`ls -t myfile*.txt | head -1` might work for you.

> Help is appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> James