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From: krs@uts.amdahl.com (Kris Stephens [Hail Eris!])
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: NCSA Telnet - ftp - and ls -lt | head
Message-ID: <32ct025Bbaf=01@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
Date: 24 Jul 90 22:39:39 GMT
References: <48418215MES@MSU>
Reply-To: krs@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Kris Stephens [Hail Eris!])
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA
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In article <48418215MES@MSU> 18215MES@MSU.BITNET writes:
>Hi folks,
>I find it valuable to connect to stanford - sumex via ncsa telnet,
>and would like to see the most recent postings in a few of the
>directories. I know that I can do a ls -lt  to list sorted by
>most recent additions, but how can I limit it to the first
>10 - 15 lines of output?


Sure:

	ls -lt | sed 15q

		-or-

	ls -ltd */* | sed 15q

where the sed in each case will quit (and close stdin) after reading
and printing 15 lines.  I use the second call (ls -ltd */*) to get
a time-ordered list of files in subdirectories, without listing either
the directory names themselves or files lower than that.

...Kris
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