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Old 09-17-2011
find command with sort
HI

Find command is sorting differently in different machines.
I am trying a script to find file with -name option and delete the files other and keep the latest. the problem I am facing is in one machine find command is returning output sorted with oldest first and latest . But in another machine its the other way around.

Anyone know how to make the find command return output sorted the way i want??
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Old 09-17-2011
you can try this..[ if that is ok then change `rm -i` to `rm -f` ]
Code:
for i in $(find -name "file*"|xargs ls -lt|awk 'NR>1 {print $9}')
do rm -i $i ; done

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