Script help

[Aldo Foot]

On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 2:18 PM, James Pifer <jep at obrien-pifer.com> 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
>
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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.

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