Shell Programming and Scripting

I want to find the files and delete all the files except the last file.
I am using find command , I am sending the find output to a file and getting all the lines except the last one and sending it to the remove command . This is not working. can anyone help me out to do it in the find command itself. Please send me the reply ASAP.

This is one script
#! /bin/ksh
find . -name headdump* >delete.txt
rm -f | cat delete.txt | sed -n '$d; p'

Can I get the result using xargs or exec options in find to get it.The below script will delete all results. Can I filter the output here.

#! /bin/ksh
find . -name heapdump* -exec rm '{}' \; -print >delete.txt

try

Code:

find . -name heapdump* -exec rm {} \ ;

this will delete all the files outputted by find command
or

Code:

find . -name heapdump*|xargs rm

I want to retain the last file .I should not delete the last file. Please send me the command for leaving the last file found.

do you have command called tac installed??

NO.I guess we dont ve it.

Please clarify what you mean by the "last file". The order of the output from "find" is not much use for operations based on the age of the file.
If you want to retain the most recently created file, "find" is not the right way.

I guess the last file is the recent file only. Could you kindly help me out if i cannot do it using the find command.