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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Selecting the file of latest Date Post 302643373 by KAREENA18 on Saturday 19th of May 2012 08:46:17 AM
Old 05-19-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by Scott
You can't have ten files with the same name in a directory. Is the date embedded in the filename? If so, best is in the format YYYYMMDDHHmm, then the files will display already sorted.

Code:
vi $(tail -1 <(ls))

Otherwise
Code:
vi $(head -1 <(ls -t))

Yeah scott , files are created with date is also embedded with them let say,
HTML Code:
abc20120515abc.log
abc20120516abc.log
abc20120517abc.log
so please advise I want to open the latest one through Vi editor abc20120517abc.log file
 

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NWDIR(1)							       nwdir								  NWDIR(1)

NAME
nwdir - Lists files in directory SYNOPSIS
nwdir [-h] [-v] [-l] [-t] [-d] [-e] [-f] [directory] DESCRIPTION
nwdir lists files, directories and their attributes from the specified NetWare directory. OPTIONS
-h -h is used to print out a short help text. -d List directories like other files, rather than listing their contents. -l Show filename in all available namespaces. -v Verbose listing, display everything possible. -e Display OS/2 Extended Attributes. -f List connections using each file. -t Show all informations (rights, attributes, file inodes) also as hexadecimal numbers. directory You can specify the directory to list. Current working directory is used by default. You have to specify path in Linux format, not in NetWare format. EXAMPLES
nwdir -t -v /NetWare/server/sys With this example, all files from directory /NetWare/server/sys are displayed. AUTHORS
nwdir was written by Milan Vandrovec. See the Changes file of ncpfs for other contributors. BUGS
Directory quotas are not displayed. User names are not taken from NDS, but only from bindery. nwdir 4/2/1998 NWDIR(1)
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