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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Get latest filename without extension Post 302742739 by Corona688 on Tuesday 11th of December 2012 01:43:15 PM
Old 12-11-2012
You don't need -l to get sorted output, that's what -t does. Leaving it off makes everything simpler. Just match the first .txt, remove the extension, print, quit.

Code:
# Only run this code for lines ending in .txt
# Delete .txt
# Print the line
# exit without printing more lines

ls -t | awk '/[.]txt$/ { sub(/[.]txt/,""); print; exit }'


Last edited by Corona688; 12-11-2012 at 02:50 PM..
 

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