02-04-2008
I will make it clear
file.txt1
file.txt2
file.txt3(latest)
I want to display the latest file file.txt3 (file.txt* series).
I need the something like below
var1=`ls -ltr..............`
echo $var1
Thanks in advance
Ammu
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
debian-distro-info
DEBIAN-DISTRO-INFO(1) General Commands Manual DEBIAN-DISTRO-INFO(1)
NAME
debian-distro-info - provides information about Debian's distributions
SYNOPSIS
debian-distro-info [OPTIONS]
OPTIONS
--date=DATE
date for calculating the version (default: today)
-h, --help
display help message and exit
--alias=DIST
print the alias (stable, testing, unstable) relative to the distribution codename passed as an argument. Only distribution code-
names composed of lower case ASCII letters are accepted, and if the distribution does not qualify as stable, testing or unstable,
then the same codename passed as argument is returned.
-a, --all
list all known versions
-d, --devel
latest development version
-o, --old
latest old (stable) version
-s, --stable
latest stable version
--supported
list of all supported stable versions
-t, --testing
latest testing version
--unsupported
list of all unsupported stable versions
-c, --codename
print the codename (default)
-r, --release
print the release version
-f, --fullname
print the full name
SEE ALSO
distro-info(1), ubuntu-distro-info(1)
AUTHOR
The script and this manual page was written by Benjamin Drung <bdrung@debian.org>.
distro-info January 2011 DEBIAN-DISTRO-INFO(1)