Re: keeping the two latest files on a folder

[Israel Garcia <igalvarez@gmail.com>]

On 10/13/09, Jeff D <fixedored@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
Hi, jeff

Thanks for your answer., but doesn't work either :-(

regards,
Israel.
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Israel Garcia