[PLUG] BASH Script to find last created file in a directory

Aaron Lehmann lehmanna@purdue.edu
Mon, 12 Feb 2001 18:24:46 +0000


I need to find the last created file in a directory for a script I'm
writng, and then rename it.  Can I grep for the last created file, and
make a variable equal to that name?  Is there a better way.  Also, I'd
really like to have an answer in BASH Scripting language.  I'm sure that
PERL would do this better (or that some other thing will be), but I
don't really want to have to modify the rest of thing to fit.

Thanks,
Aaron Lehmann
-- 
I agree with Matt.