how to get the latest file

shehzad_m · January 29, 2009, 4:33pm

I am trying to scp the latest file which ends with "_abc.log". Can some help me figure out how can do that?

quirkasaurus · January 29, 2009, 4:43pm

/bin/ls -t *_abc.log | head -1 | read latest_file

echo LATEST FILE IS: $latest_file

shehzad_m · January 29, 2009, 4:53pm

Can you tell me how can i put this in expect script?

quirkasaurus · January 29, 2009, 5:07pm

been a long time since i coded in Tcl...

but you can run commands with "exec" and I believe you can read from pipes
using "open"

I would suspect "open" is your best bet...

hopefully, spotting you those 2 Tcl commands should get you closer...