script help

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Mon Dec 1 21:13:29 UTC 2008


adrian kok wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I have script to remove files but it can't work in
> directory
> 
> 
> ls *log | sort -r | sed -e 1,1d | xargs rm -f
> 
> those folders are:
> 
> Nov28-log
> Nov29-log
> Nov30-log

By 'folders', do you mean that these are directories?  You need to 'rm 
-rf' directories to remove the with their contents, or you can 'rmdir' 
if they are empty.

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com




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