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To find the oldest file among the given files

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Name: Bhargav Teja
Date: April 29, 2009 at 05:58:54 Pacific
OS: Linux
Subcategory: General
Comment:

Hi,

How to find the oldest file among the given files that entered from cmd prompt(with multiple arguments) in shell script.

Thanks,
Teja.



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Name: nails
Date: April 29, 2009 at 08:53:28 Pacific
Reply:

I'm making some assumptions. I'm assuming that all the files are in the current directory. I'm also assuming the filelist variable was input with a read statement like: read filelist


#!/bin/bash

filelist="file1.txt file2.txt file5.txt"

ls -1rt $(echo $filelist) | awk ' { print $1; exit } '


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Name: Bhargav Teja
Date: May 6, 2009 at 21:37:30 Pacific
Reply:

Thank you its working :)


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