Piping to: head -n 1 or tail -n 1
will get you the first and last line respectively. Might be a better way, but that should work. Jimmy On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 3:46 PM, Rob Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'll admit up front... I don't know my unix utility commands like I > should. Thinks like sed, awk, cut, sort, uniq, etc can all make for > some powerful combinations. > > My goal via a shell script: Get the filename of the most recently modified > file. > > I can do this: > > ls -t > > to get the files sorted by modified time. But can you do a "LIMIT 1" > a la SQL, or just get the first line? Or reverse sort it to get the > last line? > > Thanks, > Rob > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > euglug@euglug.org > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
