Script help

[James Pifer]

On Fri, 2008-09-19 at 13:50 -0700, Mike Wright wrote:
> 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.

Did a couple tests. I think that will work. Thanks a lot!

James