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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Remove all the subdirectories except latest 5 inside any given directory Post 302933279 by RavinderSingh13 on Thursday 29th of January 2015 05:01:18 AM
Old 01-29-2015
Quote:
Originally Posted by Devendra Hupri
Yes Don, The second suggestion given by MadeInGermany worked for me.
Thank you for sharing the solution.
Hello Devendra,

Code given in POST#5 is working fine for me, not sure(surprised) why it is not working for you.
Let me know if you got any error after executing it. The only difference between 1st command and 2nd command given in
POST#5 is | sh will perform the deletion and 1st command will only print the directories to be deleted
as follows.
Code:
#### To print the directories to be deleted:
ls -ltr $TGTDIR | awk '/^d/ {A++;X[++j]=$NF} END{for(i=1;i<=A-5;i++){print "rm -rf " X[i]}}'
 
##### To delete the directories:
ls -ltr $TGTDIR | awk '/^d/ {A++;X[++j]=$NF} END{for(i=1;i<=A-5;i++){print "rm -rf " X[i]}}' | sh


Thanks,
R. Singh
Last edited by RavinderSingh13; 01-29-2015 at 06:14 AM.. Reason: Added comments
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SVN-CLEAN(1)							   User Commands						      SVN-CLEAN(1)

NAME

       svn-clean - Wipes out unversioned files from Subversion working copy

SYNOPSIS

       svn-clean [options] [directory or file ...]

DESCRIPTION

       svn-clean will scan the given files and directories recursively and find unversioned files and directories (files and directories that are
       not present in the Subversion repository). After the scan is done, these files and directories will be deleted.	Files which match patterns
       in the svn-clean:ignore dir property will be spared, much as the svn:ignore property works for svn status.

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       svn-clean uses the SVN Perl modules if they are available. This is much faster than parsing the output of the svn command-line client.

OPTIONS

       -e, --exclude
	       A regular expression for filenames to be exluded. For example, the following command will skip files ending in ".zip":

		       svn-clean --exclude '.zip$'

	       Multiple exclude patterns can be specified. If at least one matches, then the file is skipped. For example, the following command
	       will skip files ending in ".jpg" or ".png":

		       svn-clean --exclude '.jpg$' --exclude '.png$'

	       The following command will skip the entire "build" subdirectory:

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	       Files to which you do not have delete access (if running under VMS) or write access (if running under another OS) will not be
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       -N, --non-recursive
	       Do not search recursively for unversioned files and directories. Unversioned directories will still be deleted along with all their
	       contents.

       -q, --quiet
	       Do not print progress info. In particular, do not print a message each time a file is examined, giving the name of the file, and
	       indicating whether "rmdir" or "unlink" is used to remove it, or that it's skipped.

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