Re: Remove file resulting from ls|tail -1

[Claudius Hubig <debian_1307@chubig.net>]

Dear Oscar,

what a surprising name…

OECT T wrote:
> I need to delete the file resulting from:  ls | tail -1

In Bash, $(command) is replaced with the output of "command". For
example,

$ touch $(seq 1 4)

will create files 1, 2, 3 and 4. So you likely want something like

$ rm -i "$(ls | tail -1)"

where the "-i" is for interactive mode (rm will ask you) and the
quotation marks are such that this is treated as a single argument
rather than many different ones.

Note that you might also want to think of passing ls "-1" and and
possibly sort before taking the tail.

Best,

Claudius
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