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Old 06-28-2012
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Originally Posted by visio2000
Have you tried this (it gives only file name):

Code:
 
cd /root/admin/files
ls |awk '{print $1}'|head -1


Code:
 
cd /root/admin/files
ls -1 |head -1

# 9  
Old 06-28-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by visio2000
Have you tried this (it gives only file name):

Code:
 
cd /root/admin/files
ls |awk '{print $1}'|head -1

This returns the complete file path..
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