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Old 11-08-2012
Question How to archive old files from the recently added 10 files?

Hi there, I am very new to unix and having trouble with a fairly simple statement:

Code:
 
cd /user
ls -t -c1 | sed -ne '11,$p' | mv xargs archive/


What I want the code to do is sort all files in a directory by timestamp, select all of the files after the 10th file, and then move those files to an /archive folder.

When I execute this statement it throws a "file not found" error, is there any obvious reason why this isnt working?

Thanks
# 2  
Old 11-08-2012
Instead of piping the output to mv you can try this:-
Code:
for file in `ls -t -c1 | sed -ne '11,$p'`
do
   mv $file archive/
done

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Old 11-08-2012
How about
Code:
cd /user
ls -t  | awk 'FNR>10' | 
while read fname
do
mv $fname /archive/${fname}
done

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# 4  
Old 11-08-2012
Thats great, exactly what I wanted.
Thanks for the responses
 
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