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loetje
 PostPosted: Sun Apr 04, 2010 11:47 am   

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Hi,

I'm looking for a script that limits the output of ls -t to show only the 10 oldest directories or files.
Can anyone help?? :-w
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G4143
 PostPosted: Sun Apr 04, 2010 6:04 pm   

Joined: Tue Mar 02, 2010 9:55 pm
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Location: Canada
If you try something like

Code:
ls -t | sort -R | head -n10
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DarthWavy
 PostPosted: Tue Apr 06, 2010 5:48 am   
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Code:
ls -rt | head
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loetje
 PostPosted: Thu Apr 08, 2010 2:49 pm   

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Thanks peeps! Works perfectly!
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