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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting [Solved] How to remove multiple files? Post 302892190 by ken6503 on Tuesday 11th of March 2014 12:00:06 PM
Old 03-11-2014
Quote:
Originally Posted by bakunin
You can simply use "ls -rt" to get your files sorted by date/time (instead of name) and then remove the last line (the latest file) and delete the others. Use the following blueprint:

Code:
ls -rt <optional file mask> |\
sed '$d'|\
while read FILE ; do
     rm -f "$FILE"
done

I hole this helps.

bakunin
I think this code should work, I was unable to find a way to remove last line as you mentioned.

I will try and let you know.

thanks

---------- Post updated at 12:00 PM ---------- Previous update was at 10:59 AM ----------

Quote:
Originally Posted by bakunin
You can simply use "ls -rt" to get your files sorted by date/time (instead of name) and then remove the last line (the latest file) and delete the others. Use the following blueprint:

Code:
ls -rt <optional file mask> |\
sed '$d'|\
while read FILE ; do
     rm -f "$FILE"
done

I hole this helps.

bakunin
this code works
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       Shrink or extend the size of each FILE to the specified size

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