Yes you are probably right and sorry about that

But thanks a lot for the suggestions

unnati

>-----Original Message-----
>From: ext Richard Heck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
>Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 8:34 AM
>To: Sapre Unnati (Nokia-M/Vancouver)
>Cc: [email protected]
>Subject: Re: [Linux-uvc-devel] How to select the lastest 
>picture taken by webcam
>
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>> Hi all
>>
>> I have a logitech webcam working in red hat linux environment and I 
>> can take snap shots from it..but if I want to select a 
>snapshot then I 
>> have to go to the file where it is stored and select it...is there
any 
>> way that I can select the latest picture taken by webcam from 
>> commandline??
>>
>> By default the picture are named as follows 
>> P-mm:dd:yyyy-hr:min:sec.jpg
>>
>This doesn't really seem like a devel question. That said, if 
>you can convince whatever program is taking the snapshots to 
>name them this way: 
>P-yyyy:mm:dd-hr:min:sec.jpg then all you have to do is:
>ls -1 P-*jpg | tail -n 1
>or something along those lines. If you can't get it to rename 
>them, then there are lots of other options, all of which would 
>involve reading the filenames and sorting them. You could do 
>it using bash, but it might be easier to do it in perl.
>
>rh
>
>
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