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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to copy specific files when you don't know the file name? Post 302479361 by purdym on Friday 10th of December 2010 11:43:59 AM
Old 12-10-2010
Is it as easy as:

Code:
root@ms:/tmp/r>ls -la
total 96K
drwxr-x---   2 root system 4.0K 10 Dec 2010 10:39 .
drwxrwxrwt  29 bin  bin     84K 10 Dec 2010 10:40 ..
-rw-r-----   1 root system    0 10 Dec 2010 10:38 00_f0_reference_S5_v36.20.1_2.txt
-rw-r-----   1 root system    0 10 Dec 2010 10:38 38.01_E300_41.36_E200_3_ri_OA_f0_S5e_v36-1_ON_0.25lr_36.20.1.in.txt
-rw-r-----   1 root system    0 10 Dec 2010 10:38 38.74_E800_44.24_E1500_1_ri_OA_f0_S5e_v36-1_ON_0.25lr_36.20.1.in.txt
-rw-r-----   1 root system    0 10 Dec 2010 10:39 41.22_E100_43.75_E300_0_ri_OA_f0_S5e_v36-1_ON_0.25lr_36.20.1.in.txt
-rw-r-----   1 root system    0 10 Dec 2010 10:39 44.06_E1400_56.04_E200_2_ri_OA_f0_S5e_v36-1_ON_0.25lr_36.20.1.in.txt
-rw-r-----   1 root system    0 10 Dec 2010 10:39 51.91_E2200_49.86_E900_4_ri_OA_f0_S5e_v36-1_ON_0.25lr_36.20.1.in.txt
root@ms:/tmp/r>ls -1 | head -3 | tail -2
38.01_E300_41.36_E200_3_ri_OA_f0_S5e_v36-1_ON_0.25lr_36.20.1.in.txt
38.74_E800_44.24_E1500_1_ri_OA_f0_S5e_v36-1_ON_0.25lr_36.20.1.in.txt
root@ms:/tmp/r>

You're looking for the two lowest numbered files right?
 

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SYNOPSIS

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DESCRIPTION

       Converts the PBM images in the input PBM file to pages in a Postscript file encoded with G3 fax compression.

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