I have files named bleh.1, bleh.2, bleh.3, bleh.4... bleh.10, etc. that are being created, and want to track their progress. Is there a way to find the largest extension (1, 2, 3, ... 10, etc) of the set of files named "bleh", then be able to use that extension to look at that file (if 10 is the largest then view bleh.10)?

note- the newest files will have the largest extension, so maybe there's a way to do it with some sort of search for the newest file, then grab its extension somehow, and use that extension with the set of files named "bleh" (ie: The newest file found is xyz.10, so look at bleh.10)

Thanks.

To view the newest file which name starts with "bleh":
To view the file with the highest number as its extension:
Of course, you can use "more" or "cat" or "view" instead to view the file...

Thanks for the reply.

Your suggestions work, but my problem now is that I'm trying to do this in a script, similar to this:

y=$(ls -tr bleh* | tail -1)

Now what I want to do is grep info from this file, using something like:

echo " `grep "blah" $y` "

I'm not sure, but I think I tried using this syntax before, and it didn't work. Is this the correct way to do it?

Thanks.

Just:

grep "blah" $y

will do...