[H-GEN] chestnut

t s4565 at lycos.co.uk
Wed Mar 26 19:52:43 EST 2003


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>     rm `ls -tr | tail -1`

i think that will match directories as well

on a redhat 7.2 box i think

\rm `find -maxdepth 1 -type f | xargs \ls -lt | awk '{print $9}' | tail -1`

should work




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