Re: [users] delete n files in a directory

[MaD dUCK <madduck@madduck.net>]

also sprach Mário Henrique Cruz Tôrres (on Sat, 16 Jun 2001 10:08:14AM +0000):
>     Good morning everyone. I wan't know if can I delete the first 200
> files ( in alphabetical order ) in a directory wich have
> 300 files ?

ls -1 | head -200 | xargs echo rm

when you made sure that the command line printed is right, remove the
word 'echo'

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