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I'm looking to store the hash of my most recently downloaded file in my downloads folder as a variable.

So far, this is what I have:

md5sum $(ls -t | head -n1) | awk '{print $1}'

Output:

user@ci-lux-soryan:~/Downloads$ md5sum $(ls -t | head -n1) | awk '{print $1}'
c1924742187128cc9cb2ec04ecbd1ca6

I have tried storing it as a variable like so, but it doesn't work:

VTHash=$(md5sum $(ls -t | head -n1) | awk '{print $1}')

Any ideas, where am I going wrong

vlumi
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NigerianWizard
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As @Cyrus outlined parsing ls has its own pitfalls and therefore better to avoid it altogether rather than allowing unexpected corner cases. The following shall facilitate the requirements epitomised.

VTHash="$(find -type f -mtime 0 | tail -n 1 | xargs md5sum | awk '{ print $1 }')"
Ashen Gunaratne
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