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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers help with ls commad Post 302164229 by vbe on Monday 4th of February 2008 08:40:11 AM
Old 02-04-2008
Not sure I uderstood your question:
var1=`ls -ltr $1 | tail-1`
echo $var1

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Perhaps you are trying to achieve the output of:
ls -ltr $1 | head -1
 

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