On Fri, 2008-09-19 at 14:08 -0700, Dennis Kaptain wrote: > > > > Can anyone rattle this off of the top of their head? > > > > `ls -t myfile*.txt | head -1` might work for you. > > > > > > > ls -t by itself may give you more than one filename per line. > Use ls -t1 > that will assure you get only one file name output from head.
Single-column output is automatically selected any time that the output of ls is redirected to anything which is not a tty, so the -1 option is not required. Comparing the output of 'ls' to the output of 'ls|cat' will demonstrate this feature at work. -Chris -- fedora-list mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
