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From: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: Comparing modified times of files
Message-ID: <1991Mar22.012635.1045@convex.com>
Date: 22 Mar 91 01:26:35 GMT
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From the keyboard of mjf@mjm.mjm.com (Mark Fresolone):
:
:	ls -t file1 file2 | line	# returns newest
:	ls -rt file1 file2 | line	# returns oldest

line: command not found

Perhaps you mean "sed -ne 1p"?

--tom