On 20Sep2008 10:36, I wrote: | Something like the find incantation of another post is the easy way: | | find . -type f -name 'myfile\*.txt' | ls -t | sed 1q Gah. My brain is off. Something more like this: files=`find . -type f -name 'myfile\*.txt'` ls -t -- $files | sed 1q Won't work if there are spaces in the filenames... -- Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ These are my principles, and if you don't like them, I have others. - Groucho Marx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
