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# 1  
Old 04-18-2014
Delete files of the same type if there are more than 3
hi,

I would like to delete files in a folder starting with letters ab and fe and so on. It should only delete if there are more than 3 files of that type in that folder. Please suggest me how to write a script. i am new to this scripting.
# 2  
Old 04-19-2014
Does it delete all the files if there are 4 or more?
Code:
ab and fe and so on ?

It would help immensely if you were to supply how you determine af and fe.

We can certainly help you write code that does just what you probably DO NOT want based on your requirements. Examples and expected results would be great.
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Old 04-19-2014
Are those two letter file names? lower case? a certain letter range? If you don't want to delete all of them, how do you tell which to keep?
# 4  
Old 04-25-2014
Sorry for the delay...
Thankyou so much for the replies

I have a folder with files something like servername-branch.date.rpm
There are quiet a few servers so names of the files starts with servername.
I want to take one set of files starting with server name aaa and sort them with date and then move the oldest among them
to another folder in the same path leaving 3 files for each server in the folder.
If the files(any one server) are more than 3 then they should be moved to another folder with name OLD
# 5  
Old 05-01-2014
Sorry for the delay...
Thankyou so much for the replies

I have a folder with files something like servername-branch.date.rpm
There are quiet a few servers so names of the files starts with servername.
I want to take one set of files starting with server name aaa and sort them with date and then move the oldest among them
to another folder in the same path leaving 3 files for each server in the folder.
If the files(any one server) are more than 3 then they should be moved to another folder with name OLD
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