Script help

[Chris Tyler]

On Fri, 2008-09-19 at 14:08 -0700, Dennis Kaptain wrote:
> 
> > > Can anyone rattle this off of the top of their head?
> > 
> > `ls -t myfile*.txt | head -1` might work for you.
> > 
> > > 
> 
> ls -t by itself may give you more than one filename per line. 
> Use ls -t1
> that will assure you get only one file name output from head.


Single-column output is automatically selected any time that the output
of ls is redirected to anything which is not a tty, so the -1 option is
not required. Comparing the output of 'ls' to the output of 'ls|cat'
will demonstrate this feature at work.

-Chris