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Am Donnerstag 23 Oktober 2003 12:36 nachmittags/abends schrieb Jeremy C. Re=
ed:
A bit more complicated than my 'ls | tail -n1' , but it works as well. lol
And yours works with variables as well.
Thanks
nathan
> On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, Nathan England wrote:
> > But I've also added smaller things, so I made smaller revisions using 1=
=2E1
> > and 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 the newest file, grep something out of it, and exit. I want to know
> > the fastest way for bash to figure out the newest version (biggest
> > number?) and use that one.
>
> The built-in test can check for newer files and can compare if a string
> sorts after another string ("lexicographically in the current locale").
>
> Maybe something like:
>
> big=3D"" ; for fn in * ; do [ "$fn" \> "$big" ] && big=3D"$fn" ; done ; e=
cho
> $big
>
>
> Jeremy C. Reed
> http://www.reedmedia.net/
>
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