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Old 03-15-2011
last modified directory

hi everyone

suppose i have many directory under one directory. now i want to find out the last modified directory

so i executed the command

Code:
 
ls -ltr

but it gives me the directory structure too and i don't want this

so i removed 'r' also but it too gives me directory structure

please help me in this problem
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Old 03-15-2011
Code:
ls -ldtr

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Old 03-15-2011
yessss
anchal it worked thanks a lot Smilie
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