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locating the last file in the directory
i have few files in a directory..

i want to know , how to locate or display that last file in the directory which has the max date..

pls help
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please try below command. or check man ls

Code:
ls -ltr

below command will give you the latest file(max date)


Code:
ls -ltr|tail -1
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thank u so much..
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