On Tue, March 4, 2008 3:50 pm, Alan wrote: > On Tue, March 4, 2008 3:46 pm, Rob Hudson wrote: >> I'll admit up front... I don't know my unix utility commands like I >> should. Thinks like sed, awk, cut, sort, uniq, etc can all make for >> some powerful combinations. >> >> My goal via a shell script: Get the filename of the most recently >> modified >> file. >> >> I can do this: >>> ls -t >> >> > > Assuming GNU: > > ls -l | tail -1 > ought to do it. > > -ajb >
bah, stupid send button, why are you always in the wrong place? That should be: ls -tr | tail -1 -ajb _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
