Hi, thanks to everyone for their replies.
Steve Holdoway wrote:
Need more coffee.
ls -1tr - 1 entry per line, t ime order, r eversed.
Sorry, that should be ls -ltr to put them in reverse time order. Of course,
you can use ls -lt and head as an alternative (:
for the deletes I am
On Wed, July 25, 2007 12:37 pm, Roger Searle wrote:
Hi, thanks to everyone for their replies.
Steve Holdoway wrote:
Need more coffee.
ls -1tr - 1 entry per line, t ime order, r eversed.
Sorry, that should be ls -ltr to put them in reverse time order. Of
course, you can use ls -lt and
Nick Rout wrote:
On Wed, July 25, 2007 12:37 pm, Roger Searle wrote:
Hi, thanks to everyone for their replies.
Steve Holdoway wrote:
Need more coffee.
ls -1tr - 1 entry per line, t ime order, r eversed.
Sorry, that should be ls -ltr to put them in reverse time order. Of
Sorry, that should be ls -ltr to put them in reverse time order. Of course, you
can use ls -lt and head as an alternative (:
Steve
On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 09:03:13 +1200
Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
ls -1r | tail -n xxx | xargs rm -f
should do it ( or similar - the tail -n syntax
Need more coffee.
ls -1tr - 1 entry per line, t ime order, r eversed.
3rd time lucky?
On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 09:04:37 +1200
Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sorry, that should be ls -ltr to put them in reverse time order. Of course,
you can use ls -lt and head as an alternative (:
On 24/07/07, Roger Searle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi, I have a bash script that functions very well backing up a bunch of
folders on a few machines. Each day's files are unique so after a
couple of weeks the drive storing them fills. I have no need to retain
the oldest files as they are
