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How do I open the latest file from list of files in a particular directory?
Same file name arrange in date wise with latest in last.

Currently I am using following commands:

ls -lrt filename*
tail -f filename

If your shell is a Bourne-like shell and its [ builtin implements the -nt test to test whether one file is newer than another, you may use

newest=
for file in ./* ./.*; do
 if [ -f "$file" ]; then
 if [ -z "$newest" ] || [ "$file" -nt "$newest" ]; then
 newest=$file
 fi
 fi
done

if [ -f "$newest" ]; then
 printf 'The latest file is "%s"n' "$newest"
else
 echo 'Could not find files here' >&2
 exit 1
fi

This would iterate over all regular (and symlink to regular) files (including hidden ones) in the current directory and then tell you which one was found to be the newest file. You would replace the printf statement with the actual command that you'd want to run on "$newest".

As a shell function, which additionally takes a list of files as its argument:

newest () (
 newest=
 for file do
 if [ -f "$file" ]; then
 if [ -z "$newest" ] || [ "$file" -nt "$newest" ]; then
 newest=$file
 fi
 fi
 done

 if [ -f "$newest" ]; then
 printf '%sn' "$newest"
 else
 echo 'No files found' >&2
 return 1
 fi
)

Then

tail -f "$(newest ./filename*)"

You can use GNU find, to print all files with their last modified time, sort them in reverse order, get the latest modified file ( head -n 1 - top entry ) and then do a tail of the last modified file

 find <Directory-name> -type f -printf '%TY-%Tm-%Td %TT %pn' | sort -r | head -n 1 | awk 'print $3' | xargs tail -f

If zsh is installed, you can do in it:

tail -f filenameCtrl+xm

Ctrl+xm is a completer that expands to the latest file (according to last modification time).

In a script:

#! /usr/bin/env zsh
tail -f filename*(om[1])

Where om sorts by modification time (most recent first) and [1] selects the first.