Listing only the most recent file

Oliver Marshall oliver.marshall at g2support.com
Tue Oct 16 10:26:19 UTC 2012


Hi chaps

I need some help with an ls syntax.

I want to show *only* the most recent file.

"ls -St -1" gives me the contents of a dir with the most recent on top but
I want only that most recent file shown.

Can this be done?

Olly

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