[nylug-talk] logrotate question

[N.J. Thomas]

* C Thala <cthala at gmail.com> [2008-02-02 16:47:31-0500]:
> I would like to keep the last N files. Let's say 5.

ls foo.*gz|head -n -5|xargs rm -f

(You need GNU head for this to work. Try ghead(1) if you are on a BSD
box. But then, you probably don't care about that since you are reading
this on NYLUG.)

Thomas

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