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:
> 
> 
> > > Can anyone rattle this off of the top of their head?
> > 
> > `ls -t myfile*.txt | head -1` might work for you.
> > 
> > > 
> 
> 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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