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From: fREW <frioux@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Zsh users list" <zsh-users@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: copy the newest file
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 14:30:05 -0600
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Hello again friends,

I am working on a little script that will run as a cron job and copy a
few files to another computer via scp.  I only want to copy the newest
one.  How do I get that newest file?  This is what I have figured out
so far:

/backups/daily/database*(om)

That will be a list of all the files starting with database and the
most recently modified first.  How can I just pick off the first one
from the list?  Also: where can I look in the man files for such
things?

Thanks!

-- 
-fREW

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