On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 1:20 AM, Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh.poyare...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 1:14 AM, Zico <mailz...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi, I need some idea regarding scripting. I need to run a script, which will >> search for the (latest-1) file from a folder. Here, (Latest-1) means: this >> script will find the file which is not the last edited/saved file but the >> immediate previous edited/saved file of that lastest one? Is it possible? >> > > ls -1rt | tail -2 | head -1 >
Or of course, ls -1t | head -2 | tail -1 ;) -- Siddhesh Poyarekar http://siddhesh.in _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
