08-07-2009
Copy the latest file from one directory to another
Hi All,
I am in the directory a/b/processed
the files in this directories are
-rw-r--r-- 1 owb users 330 Aug 8 chandantest.txt_08082008
-rw-r--r-- 1 owb users 220 Aug 7 chandantest.txt_07082008
-rw-r--r-- 1 owb users 330 Aug 6 chandantest.txt_06082008
-rw-r--r-- 1 owb users 220 Aug 5 chandantest.txt_05082008
I would like to copy the latest file i.e chandantest.txt_08082008 into a/b/data.
Will you please help me in this
Thanks in advance!!!!
Chandan
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
sticky
sticky(5) Standards, Environments, and Macros sticky(5)
NAME
sticky - mark files for special treatment
DESCRIPTION
The sticky bit (file mode bit 01000, see chmod(2)) is used to indicate special treatment of certain files and directories. A directory for
which the sticky bit is set restricts deletion of files it contains. A file in a sticky directory can only be removed or renamed by a user
who has write permission on the directory, and either owns the file, owns the directory, has write permission on the file, or is a privi-
leged user. Setting the sticky bit is useful for directories such as /tmp, which must be publicly writable but should deny users permission
to arbitrarily delete or rename the files of others.
If the sticky bit is set on a regular file and no execute bits are set, the system's page cache will not be used to hold the file's data.
This bit is normally set on swap files of diskless clients so that accesses to these files do not flush more valuable data from the sys-
tem's cache. Moreover, by default such files are treated as swap files, whose inode modification times may not necessarily be correctly
recorded on permanent storage.
Any user may create a sticky directory. See chmod for details about modifying file modes.
SEE ALSO
chmod(1), chmod(2), chown(2), mkdir(2), rename(2), unlink(2)
BUGS
The mkdir(2) function will not create a directory with the sticky bit set.
SunOS 5.10 1 Aug 2002 sticky(5)