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Old 10-13-2008
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Actually, Gee-Money is on the ball. If your script is in a particular directory, you don't need find. Just ls. However, his script is unnecessarily complex:

Code:
ls -1t |sed -n '/name.*\.log$/{p;q}'

would do and be a bit quicker. (Normally, ls prints out in columns UNLESS it's printing out to a pipe. The -1 here just emphasizes that.)