Question

I am new to Linux shell and I found a way to get the name of the file I want:

ls *.*g -S| grep -v ^d | head -1

I am going to be repeating this for a number of file. I am trying to copy this file to another directory (cp command?). But the below code is failing.

I am trying this, but its not working:

cp ls -S| grep -v ^d | head -1 ../directory

Also, I was wondering how to loop through directorys that are in a particular directory.

Any help is much appreciated.

Thanks,
Bryan

Answer 1

cp $(ls *.*g -S| grep -v ^d | head -1) ../directory