* Thus wrote Ashley M. Kirchner:
> 
>    I have a capture script that runs every 2 minutes and dumps an image 
> into a folder.  I'm trying to write a script (which will get included in 
> another) that will grab the last image in the folder and pass it on.
> 
>    The images are saved as 'capture.####.jpg' where #### is the 
> timestamp of the capture , starting at midnight, or 0000, and going till 
> 2358.  The structure of the folder is as follows:
> 
>    /capture/.year/month/day/capture.####.jpg
>
>...
> 
>    And all it has to do is figure out the last file, generate an 
> <img...> tag and return it.  Voila.

have your  image generation script do somthing like this:

  1. generate new image /capture/.year/month/day/capture.#.jpg
  2. copy /capture/.year/month/day/capture.#.jpg /capture/current.jpg


That way you can simply put in your img tag:
  <img src="/capture/current.jpg">

Curt
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