Sinisa wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to make a script that would run every couple hours and purge all
> files in certain folder except last five files (most recent).
> Files are being added to that folder constantly.

Adapted from the standard way in .procmailrc to keep the latest n files in a
backup directory where n is 5 to satisfy your criteria:

rm -f dummy `ls -t |sed -e 1,5d`

The reference to dummy is to ensure rm always has at least one filename as a
parameter.

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