Hi all, I am trying to display the contents of a file, the file that i want to display the contents of is a different file every day. When i use the ls -lrt command the file that i wish to display using pg, is always the last one so if i use tail -1 i can get this file with all its details. I then want to pg this file to display its contents from within a script. Note if i do an ls rather than ls -lrt the file i want is no longer the last one and thus the tail -1 command won't find the correct file. What i need to do is the ls -lrt | tail -1 to find the correct file, then strim this so that i am left with just the filename and then pg this file, all from within a script. I can't figure this bit out! The .trc files that i am searching for are created everyday so i am always looking for the most recent one. Hope someone can help, Thanks.

ls -tr |tail -1 Jc

Thanks, although now i have the name of the correct file i still need to display its contents so that when i run my script the contents of the files will be displayed.

Don gave you the syntax in the prior thread: pg `ls -tr | tail -1`