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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Zipping files older than one month Post 302182885 by era on Monday 7th of April 2008 04:39:05 PM
Old 04-07-2008
Quote:
ls -rtl *.dat | grep Jan | awk '{print $9}' | rm *.dat
This is basically equivalent to

Code:
ls -rtl *.dat | grep Jan | awk '{print $9}' >/dev/null
rm *.dat

so no wonder your *.dat files are gone. The right syntax for using the pipeline (and avoiding the Useless Use of grep | awk) is

Code:
ls -rtl *.dat | awk '/Jan/{print $9}' | xargs rm

or you could use backticks, but they are always a bit perilous, IMHO.
 

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SYNOPSIS

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   Options
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