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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 303032120 by RudiC on Tuesday 12th of March 2019 03:01:31 AM
Old 03-12-2019
That depends on what you call "latest". If you can make ABSOLUTELY sure the name's time stamp is correct, can't be tampered with, and coincides with the file creation, why not use it? If you don't, read man ls on the -t option.
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