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Old 06-22-2009
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I want to go to the last entry because the directory is very big and I don't want to read all.
Something like
Code:
mos:/xtra $ ll|wc -l
2259
mos:/xtra $ ll -lt|head -2
total 1624588
-rw-rw-r--   1 oracle     dba           6645 Jun 20 23:00 oa....