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Hi,

I have a problem.

I have some text files in a folder. The names can be like:

emp_20080307053015.dat
emp_20080306053015.dat
emp_20080305053015.dat
emp_20080304053015.dat

The date format appended is like yyyymmdd and timestamp.

What i need is i have to copy the latest file every day i.e. which has the latestdate appended to the file name to a different folder.


Can any one tell a shell script for this?


Thanks in advance....
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Are you depending on the timestamp also to find out the latest file. If that is the case,

Code:
ll -ltr | tail -1
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Yes I need to check the timestamp also.
so can you please send me the script to pick the latest file everyday.

thanks
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