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#!/bin/bash
ls -lrt | awk '{ f=$NF }; END{ print f }'
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This alias works well, too:

alias lastf="ls -lrt | awk '{ f=$NF }; END{ print f }'"

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That's awesome! Thanks. How did you find this?

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aji commented Jun 14, 2012

It was a public gist and was under the "All Gists" list.

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