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Old 08-05-2010
Java Copy Last modified directory to another directory
Hi,
I have to copy last modified Directory to another directory.How can i Do using pipe or redirect

cp -R 'ls -lrt|tail -1' test is not working.

please help.
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Old 08-05-2010
Hi

Code:
 cp -R `ls -lrt | grep ^d | tail -1 | awk '{print $NF}'` test

Guru
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Old 08-05-2010
Data Thanks
Hi Guru,
Thanks for the help .But when I incoprate this command in my perl script it says $NF requires explicit package name .
I have definedalso
!#/usr/bin/awk -fSmilie
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Old 08-05-2010
Code:
# find -maxdepth 1 -type d -exec stat -c %Y%n {} \; | sort -n | tail -1|sed 's/[^.]*//' | xargs cp -rt "your target path"

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