How do I move the oldest or newest file in a directory to another with Mac OS X Terminal

Question

I\'m trying to us the following command on Mac OSX 10.6 Terminal but it does not work..Any idea what I may be doing wrong?

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Answer 1

Assuming the files you are moving are in the current directory:

mv "`ls -1t | tail -1`" dir_to_move_to

the quote help for spaces in filename, but I don't think my answer is elegant, any more elegant solution?