10-30-2008
Deleting files using find command
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
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