script help

[Bill Davidsen]

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
> 
What is it you are trying to do here? Are you trying to remove files in the 
directory leaving the directory name, or remove the directory, or ??? What is 
the sort trying to do, given that month names don't occur in alphabetical order...

If you are trying to remove all but the two most recent directories (I'm 
guessing here):
  ls -dt *-log | tail -n +3 | xargs rm -rf

That won't work if filenames contain blanks, something I fight daily.

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