Bash script to install the latest version of a file using dpkg -i

install-latest-of.sh

#!/bin/bash

pattern="$1"

shopt -s nullglob
command="ls -t1 "$pattern" | head -1"
echo "Executing: $command"
fileName=$(eval $command)
shopt -u nullglob

if [[ -n $fileName ]]; then
    echo "Installing $fileName"

    sudo dpkg -i $fileName

    if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
        echo "Installed $fileName successfully"

        # remove the file
        rm -iv $fileName
    else
        echo "Failed to install $fileName"
    fi
else
    echo "No file found"
fi

Usage

$ install-latest-of.sh "discord*"
Executing: ls -t1 discord* | head -1
Installing discord-0.0.63.deb