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Re: Return the name of the last (newest) file ? [message #31674 is a reply to message #31673]

Tue, 13 August 2002 10:05

Liam E. Gumley
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Registered: January 2000

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Kolbjorn Bekkelund wrote:
>
> Hi.
>
> I'm modifying an old IDL-routine (under Linux and IDL 5.4), plotting some of our ozone lidar data.
> This has to be done manually today, but I'm working against an automation
> of this job now. The final stage here is to have IDL run by cron, finding the last
> (newest) file by itself and process it.
>
> Now I'm using this approach:
>
> FileTable=dialog_pickfile(/read, filter='/data/ozon/dialdata/ozon-online/*')
>
> which isn't very automatic :-)
>
> The structure of the filesystem is like this:
>
> /data/ozon/dialdata/ozon-online/
>
> and a listing of that directory gives:
>
> [kolbjorn@antares ozon-online]$ ls
> AUG12_02.001 AUG12_02.008 AUG12_02.015 AUG12_02.022 AUG12_02.029
> AUG12_02.002 AUG12_02.009 AUG12_02.016 AUG12_02.023 AUG12_02.030
> AUG12_02.003 AUG12_02.010 AUG12_02.017 AUG12_02.024 AUG12_02.031
> AUG12_02.004 AUG12_02.011 AUG12_02.018 AUG12_02.025 AUG12_02.032
> AUG12_02.005 AUG12_02.012 AUG12_02.019 AUG12_02.026 AUG12_02.033
> AUG12_02.006 AUG12_02.013 AUG12_02.020 AUG12_02.027 AUG13_02.034
> AUG12_02.007 AUG12_02.014 AUG12_02.021 AUG12_02.028
>
> I would be very happy for all the help I could get !

How about this?

spawn, 'ls -1rt /data/ozon/dialdata/ozon-online | tail -1', lastfile
print, lastfile

Cheers,
Liam.
Practical IDL Programming
http://www.gumley.com/

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		Re: Return the name of the last (newest) file ? By: Kolbjorn Bekkelund on Tue, 13 August 2002 12:40
		Re: Return the name of the last (newest) file ? By: David Fanning on Tue, 13 August 2002 11:53
		Re: Return the name of the last (newest) file ? By: David Fanning on Tue, 13 August 2002 11:47
		Re: Return the name of the last (newest) file ? By: Kolbjorn Bekkelund on Tue, 13 August 2002 11:25
		Re: Return the name of the last (newest) file ? By: David Fanning on Tue, 13 August 2002 10:09
		Re: Return the name of the last (newest) file ? By: Liam E. Gumley on Tue, 13 August 2002 10:05

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