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Old 05-30-2007
matrixmadhan matrixmadhan is offline Forum Advisor  
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Originally Posted by ericaworld
sorry, please ignore previous message,
here is the real problem

when I type

ls -lt | awk '{}END{ print $NF }'

it did not return anything, but I do have lots files under that directory
all I want is the oldest one, do u have any idea why I am not getting any result?

thanx

This should work definitely,

try running ls -lt,
the filename from the last line will be displayed.