Re: Finding a file by age (Newest First)

Not familiar with aix, but if your 'ls' supports it then:

my ($mask, $position) = @ARGV;
print "Your file is: ".(grep {/^$mask/i} `ls -tr`)[$position-1];
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Re^2: Finding a file by age (Newest First) by Roy Johnson (Monsignor) on Jun 04, 2004 at 18:38 UTC
You might want to make that `ls -Atr` The PerlMonk `tr///` Advocate	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Finding a file by age (Newest First) by dave_the_m (Monsignor) on Jun 04, 2004 at 20:03 UTC
In this example, I'd skip Perl altogether. `ls -At\| grep '^te' \| head -2 \| tail -1` [download] Dave.	[reply] [d/l]