Re: [Help-bash] latest

[Christof Warlich]

Am 27.11.2016 um 05:43 schrieb Val Krem:
> Hi all,
>
> I am trying to fine  the latest 5 files in a given folder and count the number 
> of rows in each  of files
>
> I used,
>
>
> ls  -1t | head -5.
>
> How do I pass these files to the command  wc -l?
>
>
> Thank you in advance

Assuming you want to print the number of lines of each file:

for i in $(ls -1t | head -5); do wc -l $i; done

Further note that using ls -1t also lists directories, which you may 
want to exclude.