[SOLVED] List specific files and delete results

niiiro · 07-08-2011, 08:55 AM

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!