How to Automate a job to move the latest file with a sequential file name

Solution 1:

There's two parts in your question, so I'll adress them separately. I also don't know how confortable your are with Linux, so please tell me if these guidelines are too blurry.

  • find the latest modified file CEN_06 and copy the file to a different directory : you should be able to do that using the output of ls -lt, and then grabbing the first result. After some search, the following seems to be working : ls -t | head -n1 (edit: thanks to @FedonKadifeli for this command). To copy a file, the cp command is what you are looking for.
  • I want to automate a job : one way to automate stuff in Linux is to use crontabs. You should be able to do what you want using them. I recommand you read the man on that subject man 5 crontab. You basically put in a .sh file the commands you want to run, and then crontab will automate it for you at given intervals.