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?
>

Try this:

getLatestFile(){
if [ $# -eq 1 ]; then
  ls -tr $1 | tail -1
else
  echo "usage: getLatestFile <dir>"
fi
}

ex.
$ getLatestFile ~
$ getLatestFile .
$ getLatestFile /tmp

HTH,
-- 
Manish

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