> Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 21:15:35 +0200
> From: debian_1...@chubig.net
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Remove file resulting from ls|tail -1
>
> Dear Oscar,
>
> what a surprising name…
Thanks
>
> OECT T wrote:
> > I need to delete the file resulting from: ls | tail -1
>
> In Bash, $(command) is replaced with the output of "command". For
> example,
>
> $ touch $(seq 1 4)
>
> will create files 1, 2, 3 and 4. So you likely want something like
>
> $ rm -i "$(ls | tail -1)"
>
> where the "-i" is for interactive mode (rm will ask you) and the
> quotation marks are such that this is treated as a single argument
> rather than many different ones.
>
> Note that you might also want to think of passing ls "-1" and and
> possibly sort before taking the tail.
>
> Best,
>
> Claudius
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Thanks a lot. It worked great.
Regards
Oscar Corte
