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niiiro 07-08-2011 08:55 AM

List specific files and delete results
 
Hello people,

A simple questions, I ran the command:

Code:

ls -ltr | head -n40
I'd like to delete all the files listed...


Thanks!

szboardstretcher 07-08-2011 09:00 AM

Is your purpose to delete the oldest 40 files in a directory?

something like:

Code:

ls -tr | head -n2 | xargs rm

You don't want -l, because it will give you other garbage that you don't need. Please test this before rolling into production, so you understand it.

Modify -n2 to -n40 once it has been tested.

niiiro 07-08-2011 09:08 AM

Always nice to learn something new and useful in Linux :)

thanks buddy!


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