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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting find the most recent file containing a certain string Post 302354384 by plelie2 on Friday 18th of September 2009 03:45:11 AM
Old 09-18-2009
1) the files are all in the same directory and their are no subdirs
2) the frequency and the number of files changes from 60 per year to 20 per week depending on some external factors
3) this are all normal unix text files

---------- Post updated at 09:38 AM ---------- Previous update was at 08:59 AM ----------

the solution of anchal_khare does not work, it's well possiblze thatt here are no files containing this string, in this case the solution gives the last file in the dir anyway, and it should give nothing

---------- Post updated at 09:45 AM ---------- Previous update was at 09:38 AM ----------

I think I found a simple solution
In the first try I wanted to find all the files with the string and sort them later on, I just reversed this approach. I sort all the files first and search the string afterwards

Code:
ls -1rt *.trc | xargs grep -l " NORESETLOGS" | tail -1

 

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