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Old 10-12-2012
Shell : deleting only first 2 files in a directory

I have 4 files in a directory and want to delete only first 2 files only..

Code:
$ ls -ltr
total 640
-rw-r--r--   1 user   other     148779 Oct 12 10:50 file1.xls
-rw-r--r--   1 user   other     148779 Oct 12 10:50 file2.xls
-rw-r--r--   1 user   other     148779 Oct 12 10:50 file3.xls
-rw-r--r--   1 user   other     148779 Oct 12 10:50 file4.xls

I have used the below code but getting an error

Code:
$ ls -ltr file* | head -n 2 | rm
usage: rm [-fiRr] file ...

Could anyone please let me know how to delete only the first 2 files ?

Thanks in advance...

Regards,
Giridhar Sripathi
 

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NAME
chartex - A utility to extract charts from an Excel file for insertion into a Spreadsheet::WriteExcel file. DESCRIPTION
This program is used for extracting one or more charts from an Excel file in binary format. The charts can then be included in a "Spreadsheet::WriteExcel" file. See the "add_chart_ext()" section of the Spreadsheet::WriteExcel documentation for more details. SYNOPSIS
chartex [--chartname --help --man] file.xls Options: --chartname -c The root name for the extracted charts, defaults to "chart". OPTIONS
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