Shell Programming and Scripting

hi,

i'am trying to write a script which takes a data element from one file and searches in a certain file path and after it finds it it redirects the file names to a new file...Now i have to pick the up the last modified file's Timestamp(MMDDYY) from the files collected for each data element.

how would i go by breaking the loop for each data element in the list to get the latest filename in the filepath in which that data element is present.

any suggestions,please...

regards,
kmr023

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Often, requests are best understood with examples. Especially since this is a world-wide forum, and people have different ways to describe things.

Code:

fl='/XXX/AAA/CCC/'
for i in `cat /var/tmp/g3ukem/pools`
do
for j in `ls -ltr ${fl}/*.Z | tr -s ' '| cut -d" " -f9 | cut -d\ / -f7`
do
count=`zcat $fl/$j | grep "$i" | wc -l` 
if [ $count -eq 1 ] ; then
echo ${j} | grep "PSta*" >> /var/tmp/g3ukem/fcount
fi

...from here when i see the /var/tmp/g3ukem/fcount i see the files for all the data elements in cat /var/tmp/g3ukem/pools, i need to split the loop for each data element so that i can get the latest file for each data element in /var/tmp/g3ukem/pools