Re: Bash programming, copy only onefile?

2004-08-24 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 12:16:17AM +0200, Joachim Dagerot wrote: A quiz easy to write, hard to answer? In bash, how can I write a command that moves the oldest file in a directory to a new direction? Here is one possible way, certainly there are many others: # ls -t /path/to/dir | tail -n 1

Re: Bash programming, copy only onefile?

2004-08-24 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2004-08-24 17:15, Nathan Kinkade [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 12:16:17AM +0200, Joachim Dagerot wrote: A quiz easy to write, hard to answer? In bash, how can I write a command that moves the oldest file in a directory to a new direction? Here is one possible way,