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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Help script find file most recent Post 303015135 by verita on Wednesday 28th of March 2018 04:53:57 PM
Old 03-28-2018
Quote:
Originally Posted by rdrtx1
Code:
ls -1t $(find /somedir -type f -name "$1") | head -2

Thanks!

But if I write
Code:
head -2

, only I will have the last two values. In the repertoire there are thousands of files every day.
I wanted to give an example of the files.
 

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intltool-extract

INTLTOOL-EXTRACT(8)					      System Manager's Manual					       INTLTOOL-EXTRACT(8)

NAME

       intltool-extract - generate header files which can be read by gettext

SYNOPSIS

       intltool-extract [ --ini-style ] [ -X|--verbose ] [ -H|--help ] [ -V|--version ] [ --xml-style ] [ --scheme-style ] BLAH

DESCRIPTION

       This generates header files from the strings in the specified input files which gettext can use to merge strings into the pot file.

OPTIONS

       --ini-style
	      File is of type gettext/ini.

       -X, --verbose
	      Be verbose to give the user additional feedback.

       -H, --help
	      Show usage and basic help information.

       -V, --version
	      Show version information.

       -O, --xml-style
	      File is of type gettext/xml.

       -O, --scheme-style
	      File is of type gettext/scheme.

REPORTING BUGS

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AUTHOR

       Darin Adler	     <darin@bentspoon.com>
       Kenneth Christiansen  <kenneth@gnu.org>
       Maciej Stachowiak     <mjs@eazel.com>

SEE ALSO

       intltoolize(8), intltool-prepare(8), intltool-merge(8), intltool-update(8)

intltool							September 09, 2001					       INTLTOOL-EXTRACT(8)
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