newer: Print the Name of the Newest File
Here's a quick alias that figures out which file in a group is the newest:
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alias newer "ls -dt \!* | head -1" |
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sh_init | If your system doesn't have a head () command, use sed 1q instead. |
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For example, let's say that you have two files named plan.v1 and and plan.v2. If you're like me, you (often) edit the wrong version by mistake - and then, a few hours later, can't remember what you did. You can use this alias to figure out which file you changed most recently:
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Oops. I edited the wrong version by mistake. I could also have used backquotes () to handle this in one step:
%emacs `newer plan.*`
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