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# 1  
Old 04-03-2009
Bug Delete all Files except the Latest Files
Hi,
In my scenario, i just want to delete all the files except the latest one.
How can I do?
Please reply me.
# 2  
Old 04-03-2009
Several possibilities.

'find -mtime' or 'find -ctime' will find old files - but it only has ~ one day resolution.
See man find.

Or cou could do a 'ls -lrt' which will list files sorted by date in reverse (-r) order. Combine it with head, tail, awk, xargs, rm to get your desired result.

If it's about log files you could also have a look at the logrotate package, which gives you lots of possibilities of rotating, deleting, compressing files in an automated fashion.

Hope this helps,
n.
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Old 04-03-2009
you can use -amin instead of atime or mtime ( its not supported in some OS).

or find -newer

see the man page of find.
# 4  
Old 04-04-2009
Quote:
In my scenario, i just want to delete all the files except the latest one.
Try:

ls -1t |awk 'NR>=2 { print $ 0; }' | xargs rm
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