21 lines
550 B
Shell
Executable file
21 lines
550 B
Shell
Executable file
#!/bin/bash
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# Get the last file name of any numbered series of text files.
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# file format:
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# in regex terms:
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# [0-9]+\.[.*\.]*md|txt
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# in plain terms:
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# [leading numbers with consistent width].[optional string descriptor and . separator][md|txt]
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UMALLFILES=`ls | egrep '^[[:digit:]].*\.(md|txt)'`
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LASTSTATUS=$?
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# NOTE: if we don't stop and signal here, tail will exit 0
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if [ "$LASTSTATUS" -ne 0 ]; then
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echo "no files found" >&2
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exit 1
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fi
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# NOTE: if var isn't quoted echo will change newlines to spaces
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echo "$UMALLFILES" | tail -n 1
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