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Hi all,

my problem is teh following:

I need to move a file from a folder to another and I usually do it by the get command but in this case I have a list of file in the source folder and I have to select only the lust updated one.
Ho to do this?

All the files have the same name followed by a timestamp; something like:
aaaaaaaa_20080902.TXT
aaaaaaaa_20080903.TXT
aaaaaaaa_20080904.TXT.

I need to move only the last one.

Thanks to all will help.

ls -lrt |tail -1 gives you the file with latest time stamp..

One way, assumes the last update was on the timestamp:

Code:

file=$(ls -rt aaaaa*.TXT | tail -1)
mv $file /path/to/new/directory

Hi,
your posts were very welcome.

The problem has been solved.

Thanks one more time!

I have anew question;

The file I need to move are on another server; how to do the same operation through ftp connection?

I open the connection with ftp command but ls semms not to work (It says that the file doesn't exist but on the source server I can find id with ls)