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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Need help with UNIX command to get the latest file from list of files with timestamp Post 303032119 by rakeshp on Tuesday 12th of March 2019 02:37:46 AM
Old 03-12-2019
Need help with UNIX command to get the latest file from list of files with timestamp
Hi All,

I have list of files like below with name abcxyz.timestamp. I need a unix command to pick the latest file from the list of below files. Here in this case the lates file is abcxyz.20190304103200. I have used this unix command "ls abcxyz*|tail -1" but i heard that it is not the appropriate one which may not be successful all the time.I was told to use a command by sorting the files based on the timestamp. Please do the needful.

Code:
abcxyz.20190304103200
abcxyz.20190303131348
abcxyz.20190303115704
abcxyz.20190227153924
abcxyz.20190215171513
abcxyz.20190228123958

Thanks
Rakesh
Last edited by RavinderSingh13; 03-12-2019 at 03:45 AM..
 

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