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Smile Need to delete the latest two files..Help needed

Suppose I have a directory called jeet and inside that directory so many files will be there....
Example:
/abc/xyz/jeet
$ ls -ltr
total 0
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle dba 0 Jan 13 11:36 naresh
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle dba 0 Jan 13 11:36 sreeni
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle dba 0 Jan 13 11:36 ali
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle dba 0 Jan 13 11:36 bala
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle dba 0 Jan 13 11:36 dinesh
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle dba 0 Jan 13 11:36 bikash

So I want a script which will delete all the files except the latest 2 files...
Can anyone please help me out///I am new to scripting..
 

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