On Fri, 04 Aug 2000, Daniel Woods pushed some small plastic letters in this order:
> > > I am new to shell scripting,
> > > I would like to create a script in bash shell.
> > > that would do the following
> > >
> > > 1) find out the latest file ( text file)in a directory
> > > ( there are bunch of files in a dir)
>
> This will work...
> cd {directory}
> ls -t | head -1
> or
> ls -t $HOME | head -1
>
> Using ksh (on Unix), this next line works to only accept files
> x=`ls -t | head -1`; if [[ -f $x ]]; then echo $x ;fi
> except that I could not get this to work with bash as
> x=`ls -t | head -1`; if [ -f $x ]; then echo $x ;fi
> since the '-f $x' seems to fail the test. Anyone know why ?
>
As far as each shell goes those lines are direct equivalents. Is the directory
that you're working in changing? Only regular files will show up with either
command.
Tony
