Hi Miquel!
Thanks a lot for your quick reply!
On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> [...]
> No, you probably have lots of filed in $BACKUP_DIR/arc, so
> the expression $BACKUP_DIR/arc/*.arc expands in more arguments
> than is possible on the command line of ls.
Right, I do have a lot of files in $BACKUP_DIR/arc and *all* of them end
in ".arc", so I guess I could just do without "*.arc".
>
> How about
>
> FILES=`$LS -t1 $BACKUP_DIR/arc | grep '\.arc$' | $TAIL -$NUM_OF_FILES`
>
> This way, you let ls list all files, and filter the arc files
> out with grep (note I left out '-l' which seems unnessecary)
Yes, you are right, the "-l" is not required. Probably I can omit the grep
if all my files end in ".arc", right?
> If _that_ list gets too long you can always do
>
> $LS -t1 $BACKUP_DIR/arc | grep '\.arc$' | $TAIL -$NUM_OF_FILES |
> while read i
> do
> $RM -f $i
> done
Thanks a lot for your suggestions, I will try them out!
Greetings,
Holger
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