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Pranav Patil
Pranav Patil

Reputation: 1

Picking the latest file from a folder

I have a couple of files in a folder such as abc_2-01-2019.csv, abc_2-02-2019.csv, abc_2-03-2019.csv, abc_2-04-2019.csv, and I want to pick the latest file and send it over an email as an attachment on Linux VM. Can anybody help me out?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 31

Answers (1)

Derviş Kayımbaşıoğlu
Derviş Kayımbaşıoğlu

Reputation: 30565

ls -Art | tail -n 1

where 

 -A  do not include . and ..
 -t sort by modification time
 -r reverse sort

and tail -n 1 gets last entry

Upvotes: 1

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