On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 12:24 PM, Israel Garcia <igalva...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi List, > > It's a simple question but difficult to me :-). > > How can I delete all files on a folder /xxxx but keeping only the two > latest (newest) files?
Here's one way, (warning: this will probably break painfully on filenames with spaces in them), ls --sort=time --time=ctime -1 | tail -n +3 | xargs rm -i This is complicated enough logic that'd I'd write a one-off perl script or shell function to do it, personally. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
