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| #!/bin/bash | |
| ls -lrt | awk '{ f=$NF }; END{ print f }' |
This alias works well, too:
alias lastf="ls -lrt | awk '{ f=$NF }; END{ print f }'"
That's awesome! Thanks. How did you find this?
It was a public gist and was under the "All Gists" list.
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why not just
ls -t | head -1