Shell Programming and Scripting

#!/bin/sh
a= ls -ltr | awk '{print $9}' | head -5  | tail -3
echo `compress $a`
exit 0

ls -ltr | awk '{print $9}' | tail -5 |

#!/bin/sh
ls -ltr | awk '{print $9}' | head -5  | tail -3 |
while read a
do
  compress $a
done
exit 0

#!/bin/sh
a=`ls -ltr | awk '{print $9}' | head -5  | tail -3 | tr '\n' ' '`
compress $a
exit 0

#!/bin/sh
ls -1tr | head -5  | tail -3 | while read a
do
         echo compress "$a"
done
exit 0

#!/bin/sh
ls -1tr | head -5  |while read a
do
         # Remove echo if it finds the right files
         echo compress "$a"
done
exit 0