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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting delete files except most recent Post 75666 by pixelbeat on Tuesday 21st of June 2005 10:55:38 AM
Old 06-21-2005
Code:
DIR=/u02/oracle/CMDR/archive

find $DIR -type f -maxdepth 1 -printf "%T@\t%p\n" | #list files with timestamps
sort -k1,1n | #sort oldest -> newest
cut -f2- | #remove timestamps
sed '$d' | #remove the last one (newest file)
tr '\n' '\0' | #delimit with NULs in case spaces in names
xargs -r0 rm -f

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