a shell script help - UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

ting123 · #1 03-16-2006

Question, please help.

I'd like to write a shell script, if use command line, should be two commands:

1, ls | tail -1
2, tail the last line of the file which is output of the line one

Could anyone can help?

- Thanks

gauravgoel · #2 03-16-2006

Hi,

I am confused in what exactly you need.
Can you please explain your problem a bit more,

Gaurav

Unbeliever · #3 03-17-2006

I assume you mean this:

Code:

tail -1 `ls | tail -1`

Which gives you the last line of the last file lsited in the ls command.

ting123 · #4 03-17-2006

I found out the answer, using 'xargs',

the command should be:

ls | tail -1 | xargs tail -1

Thanks, everybody

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