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want to cat the latest log file created
everytime a new logfile get created at certain interval of time and i want a
simple shell script program which cat the lastest log file when manually excuted
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Some thing like this ....
add more to ls to satisfy your criteria for your log files

Code:
cat `ls -rt |tail -1`
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