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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Shell Script to Delete 1 folder and keep 5 Post 302429426 by dr.house on Monday 14th of June 2010 11:42:20 AM
Old 06-14-2010
A point to start from (?):

Code:
#!/bin/bash

TO_KEEP=5
ls . | grep -E '[0-9]{4}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2}' >> BUFFER
ENTRIES=$( cat BUFFER | wc -l )
KICKOUT=$( cat BUFFER | sort -r | tail -n $(($ENTRIES-$TO_KEEP)) )
echo "$KICKOUT"
rm BUFFER

exit 0
# finis

Code:
[house@leonov] ls 2010*
2010-06-08/  2010-06-09/  2010-06-10/
2010-06-11/  2010-06-12/  2010-06-13/
[house@leonov] bash test.bash
2010-06-08

 

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