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Extracting the first file fromf ls

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Name: prekida
Date: July 13, 2005 at 14:38:21 Pacific
Subject: Extracting the first file fromf ls
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 )
Please help.
Thank you very much.

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Response Number 1

Name: cislord
Date: July 13, 2005 at 18:06:59 Pacific
Subject: Extracting the first file fromf ls

Reply: (edit)

You can do this several ways:
MY_VARIABLE=$(ls -t search_string | head -1)
or
ls -t search_string | head -1 | read MY_VARIABLE
or
MY_VARIABLE=`ls -t search_string | head -1`

Good luck

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Response Number 2

Name: prekida
Date: July 26, 2005 at 12:17:21 Pacific
Subject: Extracting the first file fromf ls

Reply: (edit)

Thank you very much for your answers.
Greatly appreciate your help cislord.

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