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Find Latest file in a directory

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To find the latest file in a particular dir

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  1. way 1:
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  3. $ ls -lrt | awk '{ f=$NF }; END{ print f }'
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  5. The above awk is to print the last argument of the last line
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  7. way 2:
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  9. $ ls -t1 | head -n1

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