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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting remove old backup files Post 302353368 by methyl on Tuesday 15th of September 2009 07:46:04 AM
Old 09-15-2009
I agree with "pt14". The construct doesn't ignore the correct files.

Try this construct which should do if there are no non-files called "mystops*":

Code:
ls -1td mystops* 2>/dev/null | sed -n '3,$ p' | while read FILENAME
do
     echo rm "${FILENAME}"
done


Check carefully before removing the "echo".
 

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