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process the old file first
hello

i have direcotry in which i will be getting a number of input files with different names and i need to write a script where i need to process the older file first and then come out of the loop.

can any one throw some light

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My upolished way of doing it is


ls -1atr|tail -1

I'm sure there is an elegant way, but I'm not an elegant SA.
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Oops. You want older file first. Here is the change.

ls -1at |tail -1
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