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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Finding the Latest file in a Dir Post 302533707 by methyl on Friday 24th of June 2011 11:54:18 AM
Old 06-24-2011
The filenames come out in date order in a normal "ls".
Code:
ls -1d Filename_bo_* 2>/dev/null | tail -1

The "2>/dev/null" redirects the error channel if there are no files.
 

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Test::Dir(3pm)						User Contributed Perl Documentation					    Test::Dir(3pm)

NAME
Test::Dir - test directory attributes SYNOPSIS
use Test::More ...; use Test::Dir; DESCRIPTION
This modules provides a collection of test utilities for directory attributes. Use it in combination with Test::More in your test programs. FUNCTIONS
dir_exists_ok(DIRNAME [, TESTNAME] ) Ok if the directory exists, and not ok otherwise. dir_not_exists_ok(DIRNAME [, TESTNAME] ) Ok if the directory does not exist, and not ok otherwise. dir_empty_ok(DIRNAME [, TESTNAME] ) Ok if the directory is empty (contains no files or subdirectories), and not ok otherwise. dir_not_empty_ok(DIRNAME [, TESTNAME] ) Ok if the directory is not empty, and not ok otherwise. dir_readable_ok(DIRNAME [, TESTNAME] ) Ok if the directory is readable, and not ok otherwise. dir_not_readable_ok(DIRNAME [, TESTNAME] ) Ok if the directory is not readable, and not ok otherwise. dir_writable_ok(DIRNAME [, TESTNAME] ) Ok if the directory is writable, and not ok otherwise. dir_not_writable_ok(DIRNAME [, TESTNAME] ) Ok if the directory is not writable, and not ok otherwise. dir_executable_ok(DIRNAME [, TESTNAME] ) Ok if the directory is executable, and not ok otherwise. dir_not_executable_ok(DIRNAME [, TESTNAME] ) Ok if the directory is not executable, and not ok otherwise. TO DO
I know there are a lot more directory attributes that can be tested. If you need them, please ask (or better yet, contribute code!). AUTHOR
Martin 'Kingpin' Thurn, "mthurn at cpan.org", <http://tinyurl.com/nn67z>. BUGS
Please report any bugs or feature requests to "bug-test-dir at rt.cpan.org", or through the web interface at <http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=Test-Dir>. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes. SUPPORT
You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command. perldoc Test::Dir You can also look for information at: o RT: CPAN's request tracker <http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=Test-Dir> o AnnoCPAN: Annotated CPAN documentation <http://annocpan.org/dist/Test-Dir> o CPAN Ratings <http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/Test-Dir> o Search CPAN <http://search.cpan.org/dist/Test-Dir> ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
COPYRIGHT &; LICENSE Copyright (C) 2007-2008 Martin 'Kingpin' Thurn This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. perl v5.10.1 2011-03-05 Test::Dir(3pm)
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