Quote:

Originally Posted by Hangman2 Is there an alternate to just get the latest file name from a dir?

Code:

dir=/dir1/dir2  ## adjust to taste
file_name=$(
 ls -t "$dir" |
 while IFS= read -r file
 do
   [ -f "$dir/$file" ] && { printf "%s\n" "$file"; break; }
 done
)