Script help
Cameron Simpson
cs at zip.com.au
Sat Sep 20 00:41:37 UTC 2008
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...
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