Quoth Håkon Alstadheim at 14/10/09 16:37...
Due to all the positive feed-back, I actually tested the "ls -rt"-bit,
and sure enough, the 'r' makes ls list the newest files _last_, so you
DON'T want 'r'. This makes the correct command:
rm $(ls -t | sed '1,2d')
I thought this looked like an interesting recipe, so I tried it. (With
echo, I hasten to add.)
I get a listing of every file (and directory) in the directory, but all
on one line.
All the sed seems to do is to convert the multiple spaces used to format
ls -t into single spaces.
Cheers
M
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