On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, Nathan England wrote:

> A bit more complicated than my 'ls | tail -n1' , but it works as well. lol
> And yours works with variables as well.

You asked for a "bash" way -- so no other tools (like ls or tail) are
needed.

> Thanks

You are welcome.

> > big="" ; for fn in * ; do [ "$fn" \> "$big" ] && big="$fn" ; done ; echo
> > $big

   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://bsd.reedmedia.net/