Collin Daly wrote: > Anne, > > Which file is it that I want to 'tail' to view my hourly yymmddhh.stats in > the ldm/logs directory? > > Thanks, > Collin > > Collin, I presume you want to view the most recent .stats file. In your logs directory you could do: ls -1 -t *.stats | head -1 | xargs cat which will input to the 'cat' command the most recent file ending in '.stats'. Anne -- *************************************************** Anne Wilson UCAR Unidata Program address@hidden P.O. Box 3000 Boulder, CO 80307 ---------------------------------------------------- Unidata WWW server http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ ****************************************************