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Leptonator
Leptonator

Reputation: 3499

bash file cron job has issue when new file arrives at vendor

I have changed this post down to just what I think the main problem is..

There is a need to leave the two latest how to delete all files except the latest three in a folder

ls -t1 /home/jdoe/checks/downloads/*.md5 | head -n +2 | xargs rm -r

This removes the oldest files..

And to test:

ls -t1 /home/jdoe/checks/downloads/*.md5 | head -n +2

We really want to leave the two (2) newest files:

ls -t1 /home/jdoe/checks/downloads/*.md5 | tail -n +2 | xargs rm -r

This does not seem to work..

And to test:

ls -t1 /home/jdoe/checks/downloads/*.md5 | tail -n +2

Thanks!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 58

Answers (1)

Leptonator
Leptonator

Reputation: 3499

I was able to get some assistance from one of my co-workers and this appears to be what we need.

   ls -1tr /home/jdoe/checks/downloads/*.md5 | head -n -2 | while read f; do
     #rm -f "$f"
     print "file to delete is $f"
   done

Upvotes: 1

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