Hey guys, thanks for your answers... :-) talking about sed, here is a great tutorial... http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Sed.html
regards, Israel. On 10/14/09, Tzafrir Cohen <tzaf...@cohens.org.il> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 04:43:04PM +1030, Matthew Smith wrote: >> 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. > > try: ls $PARAMETERS | cat > > 'ls' defaults to a single-column format when the output is a pipe. > > -- > Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is > http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's > tzaf...@cohens.org.il | | best > ICQ# 16849754 | | friend > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > > -- Regards; Israel Garcia -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
