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From: stuart@amc-gw.amc.com (Stuart Poulin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: Comparing modified times of files
Message-ID: <6350@amc-gw.amc.com>
Date: 22 Mar 91 17:08:04 GMT
References: <SCOTTP.91Mar8093523@bwdlh504.bnr.ca> <930001@mjm.mjm.com>
Reply-To: stuart@tfatf.amc.com (Stuart Poulin)
Organization: Applied Microsystems, Redmond, WA
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In article <930001@mjm.mjm.com> mjf@mjm.mjm.com (Mark Fresolone) writes:
>
>	ls -t file1 file2 | line	# returns newest
>	ls -rt file1 file2 | line	# returns oldest
>
>Mark Fresolone
>Melillo Consulting/MJM Software
>908-873-0075/Fax 908-873-2250
>mjf@mjm.com, rutgers!mjm!mjf


Or if you don't have "line":
    ls -t file1 file2 | (read XX; echo $XX)     # returns newest
    ls -rt file1 file2 |  (read XX; echo $XX)   # returns oldest

stuart@amc.com