UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

how to directly open a last modified file in a directory? Please help

not a good way but i guess it does what you want...

Code:

 
ls -lrt | awk '/^-/{file=$9}END{print "cat " file}' | sh

Code:

while read record
do
   echo "$record"
done < $(ls -rt /path/to/file| tail -1)

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])

cat `ls -ltr | awk '{file=$9}END{print file}'`

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`