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# 1  
Old 03-05-2010
using ls -ltr : display only last four file names
Hi ,

Server details –

Machine hardware: sun4u
OS version: 5.9
Processor type: sparc
Hardware: SUNW,Sun-Fire-880

When I put ls –ltr command I get –

Code:
/users/testuser> ls -ltr
-rw-rw-r--   1 testuser  dba           76 Jan 13  2009 ftp.scr
-rwxr-xr-x   1 testuser  dba         1436 Jan 13  2009 menudb_qa
-rw-rw-r--   1 testuser  dba           16 Jan 26  2009 test.dat20090126
-rw-rw-r--   1 testuser  dba          112 Mar 10  2009 exp_vaucc2.log
drwxrwxr-x   3 testuser  dba         1024 Mar 24  2009 data
drwxrwxr-x   2 testuser  dba           80 Aug 18  2009 tmp_dblogs
-rw-rw-r--   1 testuser  dba          189 Sep  9 05:21 test.txt
-rw-rw-r--   1 testuser  dba          149 Sep  9 05:22 t.txt
-rw-rw-r--   1 testuser  dba           77 Dec 31 07:46 afiedt.buf

But want the command to display only last 4 file names –

Expected result –

Code:
/users/testuser> 
drwxrwxr-x   2 testuser  dba           80 Aug 18  2009 tmp_dblogs
-rw-rw-r--   1 testuser  dba          189 Sep  9 05:21 test.txt
-rw-rw-r--   1 testuser  dba          149 Sep  9 05:22 t.txt
-rw-rw-r--   1 testuser  dba           77 Dec 31 07:46 afiedt.buf

Plz help.
Last edited by radoulov; 03-05-2010 at 11:56 AM.. Reason: Use code tags, please!
# 2  
Old 03-05-2010
You could combine tail with the command i.e

Code:
ls -ltr |tail -4

Last edited by radoulov; 03-05-2010 at 11:55 AM.. Reason: Use code tags, please!
# 3  
Old 03-05-2010
Thank you!!
# 4  
Old 03-06-2010
Code:
ls -lrt | tac | head -4 | tac

# 5  
Old 03-06-2010
How about this?

Code:
ls -lrt | sed '6,$!d'

# 6  
Old 03-06-2010
MySQL
hi thillai_selvan your answer is not working for me.

Code:
ls -lrt | sed '6,$!d'

if the number of line is more than 100. how you get the last 4 lines.
# 7  
Old 03-06-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by ungalnanban
hi thillai_selvan your answer is not working for me.

Code:
ls -lrt | sed '6,$!d'

if the number of line is more than 100. how you get the last 4 lines.

thanks for your feedbacks. According to the user input I have wrote the above command.

If you want to satisfy for all the cases you just use the following command

Code:
ls -lrt | sed -e :a -e '$q;N;5,$D;ba'

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