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latest file in the directory

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dvknn

dvknn

IS-IT--Management
Mar 11, 2003
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I need to find the latest file in the directory. The files in the script are in:

12n%m%d.%y. I need to find the latest file.

I can do it if I execute
ls 12n*.03

I want to replace the '03' with %y'. How can I do that?

Thanks.
 
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lYEAR=`date '+%yy'`
lFILENAME="12n*."$lYEAR
ls $lFILENAME

However, if you are looking for the last file touched:
ls -ctrl directoryname | tail -1
 
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