Re: keeping the two latest files on a folder

[Matthew Smith <matt@smiffytech.com>]

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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