Script help

[Cameron Simpson]

On 20Sep2008 10:36, I wrote:
| Something like the find incantation of another post is the easy way:
| 
|   find . -type f -name 'myfile\*.txt' | ls -t | sed 1q

Gah. My brain is off. Something more like this:

  files=`find . -type f -name 'myfile\*.txt'`
  ls -t -- $files | sed 1q

Won't work if there are spaces in the filenames...
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