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
