Re: keeping the two latest files on a folder

[Jeff D <fixedored@gmail.com>]

On Tue, 13 Oct 2009, Israel Garcia 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?
>
how about something like this to start:
for file in $(ls -tA | egrep -v "$(ls -tA |head -n 2)") ; do if [ -f $file
] ; then echo "do a rm of $file"  ;fi ; done

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