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Sanyo4ever
Sanyo4ever

Reputation: 93

Synology diskstation bash script: delete old files (leave only 10 newest files)

This works to delete files older then 14 days

find /path/to/share -type f -iname "*.*" -mtime +14 -exec rm -f {} \;

I need to modify, leave only 10 latest files, no matters how old are they

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2727

Answers (1)

Šerg
Šerg

Reputation: 803

find /path/to/share -type f -iname "*.*" | sort | sed -n -e :a -e '1,10!{P;N;D;};N;ba' | xargs rm

PS If you not need sort, remove it.

Upvotes: 1

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