Refer to last *.aft file.

[M Yasir Khan_1]

Hello all,

I have a software that takes the backup and generates the log of every backup in seperate file. usually this file is ????????.fnt and on wednesday it is ????????.fft (? is refering to random character).

now what i want to do is to send this file as email to myself and the backup administrator.

what i want to know is that how can i refer to the latest file which may be .fnt and .fft. I want its name to be appeared in the variable and then i'll use it in the script.

hope u ppl have understand my problem.

thanks in advance,

Yasir.

[T G Manikandan]

you can use
#ls -t|head -1
to get the latest file from that dir

[Elmar P. Kolkman]

Or, if there are more files in the directory:
VAR=$(ls -td ????????.fft ????????.fnt | head -1)

[John Carr_2]

Yasir

I would look to change the s/w to create files with more meaningful name first but to answer your question

ls -tr | tail -1

what backup s/w are you using ?

John.

[M Yasir Khan_1]

Thanks alot for your helps ... I accomplished it with "FILE=`ls -t *.fnt *.fft |head -1`". and its working.

thanks to all of you.

Yasir.