[SOLVED] Search for directories with the highest characters in their names

Kenny_Strawn · 08-29-2010, 05:33 PM

How do you tell a shell script to search for the directory within another directory (in this case /lib/modules) whose characters in its name (in this case numbers) are highest? I want to be able to tell mkinitramfs in a script to be able to see the highest possible kernel version in the /lib/modules directory.

Sergei Steshenko · 08-29-2010, 05:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kenny_Strawn

How do you tell a shell script to search for the directory within another directory (in this case /lib/modules) whose characters in its name (in this case numbers) are highest? I want to be able to tell mkinitramfs in a script to be able to see the highest possible kernel version in the /lib/modules directory.

man ls
man sort
man head

- for starters.

Kenny_Strawn · 08-29-2010, 06:50 PM

Thread marked Solved:

Code:

ls /lib/modules | sort -g | head -n 1