Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/06/08/12:43:42
On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
> zzapper wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 8 Jun 2005 10:59:27 -0400 (EDT), wrote:
> >
> > > > #!/bin/bash
> > > > # csn
> > > > # description : launch most recent file (head)
> > > > # set -x
> > > > cygstart $(l\s -t * | head -1) &
> > >
> > > Make that 'cygstart "$(/bin/ls -t | head -1)"' (add quotes, otherwise
> > > filenames with spaces will not work).
> >
> > Slightly improved to ignore directories (and assuming that Windows files
> > always have an extension) cygstart "$(/bin/ls -t *.* | head -1)"
>
> You're making an invalid assumption that directories do not have extensions.
> They can!
>
> The following works:
>
> cygstart $(ll -t | grep -v "^d" | head -2 | tail -1 | awk '{print $NF}')
Only if you have "alias ll='/bin/ls -l'" (and it has a big problem with
spaces in filenames, of course). You can do the following instead:
cygstart "$(/bin/ls -FLt | sed -n '\,[/=|]$,!{s/\*$//;p;q}')"
This will launch the newest file if found, or Windows Explorer in the
current directory. Not launching Explorer is actually harder than just
letting it be.
Igor
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