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Selecting only newest file
Hello,

I was hoping someone could help me out. I am trying to figure out how to search for the newest file in a directory and save it as a variable. For example, if you do a 'ls -ltr', the last file listed would be the newest file. Does anyone know how to save just that file name in a variable?

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in bash/ksh/sh:

foo=`ls -tr | tail -1`
echo $foo
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