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Old 08-09-2011
Help with KSH Shell Script
From a shell script I'm trying to remove the first two files of whats returned from the head -2 command so I tried piping it to xargs rm -f but I can't get it to work.

How do I remove the files from the head command?
Code:
ls -al *clit* *servr* |sort -t_ -nk2 | head -2 |xargs rm -f

Last edited by Scott; 08-09-2011 at 03:30 PM.. Reason: Added code tags
# 2  
Old 08-09-2011
Do you need to use the l (ell) option of ls? That would leave xargs trying to remove (i.e.) -rw-r--r--, which most likely doesn't exist!

Code:
$ ls -l hello.txt | xargs echo rm    
rm -rw-r--r-- 1 scott staff 0 16 Sep 2010 hello.txt

# 3  
Old 08-09-2011
When I try to execute the command I get the error :
rm: Not a recognized flag: w
Usage: rm [-firRe] [--] File...
# 4  
Old 08-09-2011
Yes, because the long listing of ls (with -l) gives (i.e.) -r-x... 2 user group 1234 20 Sep 2010 filename.. These all become arguments to xargs.

You can do everything you need without -l

Again:
Code:
$ ls -l hello.txt | xargs echo rm    
rm -rw-r--r-- 1 scott staff 0 16 Sep 2010 hello.txt

v.

Code:
$ ls hello.txt | xargs echo rm    
rm hello.txt

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