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# 1  
Old 09-26-2009
how to open a last modified file in a directory

how to directly open a last modified file in a directory? Please help
# 2  
Old 09-26-2009
not a good way but i guess it does what you want...
Code:
 
ls -lrt | awk '/^-/{file=$9}END{print "cat " file}' | sh

# 3  
Old 09-26-2009
Code:
while read record
do
   echo "$record"
done < $(ls -rt /path/to/file| tail -1)

# 4  
Old 09-26-2009
To open or display?
If you want to edit the most recently modified file with vi from zsh for example:

Code:
vi -- *(D.om[1])

# 5  
Old 10-01-2009
cat `ls -ltr | awk '{file=$9}END{print file}'`
# 6  
Old 02-24-2010
MySQL

Code:
!v

this command will open the last opened file using vim.

if you want to execute the last executed command started with some
particular character then we can use "!" after the command first character.

once open the file using vim a.txt then you will close the file then you want
to open previous opened file then use the command "!v"
it will open the a.txt file.
It is possible for same directory. if you change the directory path then it won't work.


Use the following commands.
Code:
vim `ls -1rt | tail -1`


[OR]

Code:
vim `ls -t | head -1`


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