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How to cd into the first directory after sorting

I have a folder in which there are directories

ABC_1
ABC_2
ABC_3
ABC_4
ABC_5
Test
XYZ

I want to sort them by date,remove the directories which do not contain ABC in their name and cd into the first directory.

I tried

cd $(/bin/ls -t1 | head -n 1)

This is not working. Any help would be much appreciated
Thanks.

Solution

  • This will list only directories and filter out any folder that does not start with ABC_:

    cd "$(ls -t1 -d */ |grep  "^ABC_" |head -n1)"

    UPDATE:

    You actually do not need grep

    cd "$(ls -t1 -d ABC_*/ | head -n1)"