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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Get the newest file in a directory. Post 302445875 by ziggy25 on Tuesday 17th of August 2010 05:42:32 AM
Old 08-17-2010
Hi thanks for that. It seems to work but i cant work out how.
I looked at the manual for ls and it says that -1 "Prints one entry per line of output".

At what point does the sorting occur?
 

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dh_installdeb - install files into the DEBIAN directory SYNOPSIS
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