On Nov 12, 2007 5:13 PM, ankIT WALiA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Can anyone tell me, how to get latest created file from a folder to be
> used in shell script?
>

I believe this will work, but only in current directory ( not recursively )

ls -l | grep -v '^total' | tr -s " " ' ' | sort -t ' ' -k 6,7 | tail -1 |
cut -f 8 -d' '


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