shell script for delete old files - Shell Programming and Scripting

krishnarao · #1 (**permalink**) 07-07-2006

i want to delete all the files in my directory except the latest one. i need to do this from shell script.
say i have
a.txt - latest file
b.txt,
c.txt..
it should delete all the files except a.txt?

vino · #2 (**permalink**) 07-07-2006

Code:

file=$(ls -tr | tail -1)
find . ! -newer "$file" -maxdepth 1 -exec rm {} \;

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