Re: Beginner's?? Question

[Maurits van Rees <maurits@vanrees.org>]

On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 12:07:34PM +0200, David Baron wrote:
> All this gets me the current or previously accessed directory.  I am
> trying to get the most recent file in a known directory. There are
> several log-type files in this directory, maybe several from
> today. I want to use the last-most recently altered file's name in a
> script.

Try this:

ls -ltr

This gives a listing of files in the current dir with the most
recently altered one last. To get only the name of that last one use:

ls -tr | tail -1


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