On Sunday 15 February 2009 10:32:15 tal396 wrote: > hey, i created a backup dir that created backup every hours... > there is any way to get the last file that created that is fomat is *.sql > ? > thats what i've done, but its not working so well... > > > cd "/home/server/backups/local_backups/" ; find -type d | find . -name > '*.sql' | tac | tail -1;
why not just use `ls` and one of its sort options ? the ls man page documents how to sort by creation time -mike
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