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Extracting the first file fromf ls
Name: prekida Date: July 13, 2005 at 14:38:21 Pacific OS: Sun Solaris CPU/Ram: 8/16G
Comment:
I need help in extracting first file only from an ls command and store it in a local variable I thought using awk we could build something - not very familiar how to do it
Something like ls -t $search_string and store the resultant first file alone into a local variable ( as my result will have multiple files )
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