[H-GEN] chestnut

[Christopher Biggs]

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Greg Black <gjb at gbch.net> moved upon the face of the 'Net and spake thusly:

>
> The correct answer is, of course:
>
>     rm `ls -t | tail -1`
>
> Note that those are backquotes, not single quotes.

Oops...  I guess my fingers know the difference between being in emacs
and at a bash prompt.  :-)

Anyway, the *real* "correct" answer to the original question is:

        "why? what do you actually need to achieve?"

Narrowing the problem domain will help to avoid needlessly baroque
solutions that cope with all sorts of warts (subdirectories, empty
directories, other non-file directory entries, ctime vs utime vs
mtime, etc.)



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