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Old 06-15-2005, 08:03 AM   #1
basher400
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simple and easy ls command question

hi all

how do I display the second output item that is produced by the following:

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ls -d burger/2005* | sort -r
lets say the output is something like this:
Code:
burger/2005-01-845
burger/2005-02-464
burger/2005-02-465
burger/2005-03-846
I want to put "burger/2005-02-464" in a var.

thanks
(I just can't find the anwer on google)
 
Old 06-15-2005, 08:26 AM   #2
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To see the second item, you can do something like this:

ls | head -n 2 | tail -n 1

(first get the first two, then get the last line of the result), you can put it in a variable by using backticks, e.g.:

BLA=`ls | head -n 2 | tail -n 1`

or the more modern variant:

BLA=$(ls | head -n 2 | tail -n 1)
 
  


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