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I have directory full of text files. I keep adding things to them, but=20
everytime I add something, I create a new text file with a new version=20
number.
I started out with stuff-1, then went to stuff-2, stuff-3 and so on.
But I've also added smaller things, so I made smaller revisions using 1.1 a=
nd=20
1.2 upto 1.9 then going to 2.0
Well, my problem is, now I'm up to 4.1.4 and I want to use a script to grab=
=20
the newest file, grep something out of it, and exit. I want to know the=20
fastest way for bash to figure out the newest version (biggest number?) an=
d=20
use that one.
Currently I am doing
'ls | tail -n1'
which correctly outputs the newest version, but it just seems sloppy?
What are better ways to do it?
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