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Re: finding newest file in a folder
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Re: finding newest file in a folder


  • Subject: Re: finding newest file in a folder
  • From: Andrew Oliver <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 17:24:50 -0800

On 3/15/04 5:04 PM, "Christopher Nebel" <email@hidden> wrote:

> Both good points -- I run with -F all the time, so that's the first
> thing that came to mind. Piping through head(1) had occurred to me,
> but I suppressed the idea because I don't like the way "do shell
> script" mangles line endings for you.

And the 'altering line endings' option for 'do shell script' doesn't do it
for you either, Chris?

do shell script string -- the command or shell script to execute.
Examples are ls9 or /bin/ps -auxwww9
...
[altering line endings boolean] -- change all line endings to
Mac-style and trim a trailing one (default true)
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