> > I've been googling to find ways of doing this but I'm not finding what > I'm looking for. I think this should be fairly easy, so I'm hoping a > script guru out there can tell me what I need. > > I have some files that are all named like: > myfile387465893495643658734.txt > myfile547647453645635632454.txt > myfile563546356243546767546.txt > myfile465565634678567345656.txt > myfile456674567452345566345.txt > > I need to find all files that start with 'myfile', end in .txt Then I > need to find the most recent version and use it in a command. > > Can anyone rattle this off of the top of their head? > > Help is appreciated. > > Thanks, > James > This will tell you the most recent version of a file that starts with myfile and ends with .txt ls -t1 myfile*.txt | head -n1 How do you want to use that? Dennis K __________________________________________________ Correo Yahoo! Espacio para todos tus mensajes, antivirus y antispam ¡gratis! Regístrate ya - http://correo.yahoo.com.mx/ -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
