Re: Beginner's?? Question

[Roel Schroeven <rschroev_nospam_ml@fastmail.fm>]

David Baron wrote:

> On Monday 22 November 2004 13:30, debian-user-digest-request@lists.debian.org 
> wrote:
>
> > 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
>
>
> Thanks. That indeed does it. Did not know how to use tail here.
> Now, how do I use it in a script, such as
> $LASTFILE =  ?????

LASTFILE=$(ls -tr | tail -1)

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Roel Schroeven