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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers How to move all, except for the last 10 files Post 302639197 by birei on Friday 11th of May 2012 10:35:56 AM
Old 05-11-2012
Your first command is ls -ltr. -t sorts by modification time, with newest first. -r reverses the order, so last 10 files will be the newest now.

With that I guess that those 10 files you would get with ls -ltr /home/user/logs/ | tail -10 will be the most recent you have modified. With this information, you could use another approach, for example, read modification time of every file, keep the ten most recent and move the rest, but I could be wrong or make the problem more difficult.

---------- Post updated at 16:35 ---------- Previous update was at 16:20 ----------

There is a command that list all files but last ten without additional complications:
Code:
$ ls -ltr /home/user/logs/ | head -n-10

And from there you can pipe to grep, awk, xargs, etc.
 

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