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From: Angel Olivera <redondos@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: copy the newest file
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 18:58:46 -0300
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On Thu 02.Aug.07 14:30, fREW wrote:

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?


*(om[1]) should do it.

Cheers.

--
redondos

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