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Old 08-10-09, 10:06
LKBrwn_DBA LKBrwn_DBA is offline
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Cool Tail and quote
You are missing the 'tail -1' and closing double quote:
Code:
ssh <UID>@<HOSTNAME> "ls -tr /Parent/child/myfile*|tail -1"|xargs -i+ scp <UID>@<HOSTNAME>:/Parent/child/+ /MyDirectory/
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