Delete Files based on Date

Kelley.Coleman_at_med.va.gov
Date: 03/30/05

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Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 10:30:23 -0600

    I'm somewhat hampered by my OpenVMS experience with this problem. I need a
    script that will remove all but the latest five files in a folder. There is
    only one file per day and I want to keep five days worth. OpenVMS had a
    nice little flag on the dir command (/before=today-5) that I often used for
    this kind of thing. I'm just not finding anything similar in Linux. I've
    found how to sort files based on modified date (ls -ltr), but how can I use
    that to remove the older files?

    I didn't see anything useful in the rm man page.

    Kelley Coleman
    Database Administrator
    VA Health Administration Center
    Denver, Colorado
    303-331-7521-o
    888-732-8802-p
    720-319-0454-c 

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