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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting i want to delete a file Post 98263 by gauravgoel on Tuesday 7th of February 2006 06:25:11 AM
Old 02-07-2006
Hey man a simple solution

Quote:
ls -1r|read FILENAME
rm $FILENAME
the file with max record no. will be deleted
 

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