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about linux commands

sbtsantosh — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 08:27:22 GMT

How to print the last but one file in a directory?

Re: about linux commands

Ivan Krastev — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 08:40:05 GMT

Use:

ls | tail -1

regards,
ivan

Re: about linux commands

James R. Ferguson — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 08:41:20 GMT

Hi:

If you mean how do you print only the last file in a directory, then:

# ls -l /path | grep "^-" | tail -1

...which limits everything to regular files in '/path' and returns only the last one.

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: about linux commands

Steven E. Protter — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:15:05 GMT

Shalom,

Works well in Unix too. Or the Linux forums.

http://forums12.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/familyhome.do?familyId=118

SEP

Re: about linux commands

Dennis Handly — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 04:24:23 GMT

>How to print the last but one file in a directory?

I assume that you don't want "last file", otherwise you would have said so, and want file N-1:
ls | tail -2 | head -1

(This prints any type of "file".)