On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 2:18 PM, James Pifer <jep@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 2008-09-19 at 13:50 -0700, Mike Wright wrote: >> James Pifer wrote: >> > 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? >> >> `ls -t myfile*.txt | head -1` might work for you. > > Did a couple tests. I think that will work. Thanks a lot! > > James > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines > Just another way: You can also use the find command if the file you're looking for is elsewhere: "find <whereToLook> <pattern> -cmin 30". The -cmin finds files modified the last 30min. The -ctime option find files modified a number of hours ago. It's in the 'find' man page. ~af ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
