Hi,
* Emil Isberg wrote on 16 May 2000:
Ouch. That's alot of files...
What about the following:
rm -f dummy `ls -t .| grep '^msg\.' | sed -e '1,900d'`
If this doesn't work (can't test, don't have enough files.. ;-)
maybe he has to use find with some syntax I still haven't
understood...
find shouldn't generate long argument lists but process each
file separately. Then again, he would have to find a way to exclude
the first 900 files...
Sebastian
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