Re: oldest file

[Mat Harris <mat.harris@genestate.com>]

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that's it. that'll do i perfectly. just a little bit of looping and perl and
it's sorted.

cheers scott

On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 09:39:42 -0800, Scott Taylor wrote:
> At 09:16 AM 2/06/03, you wrote:
> >i meant that more pictures could be taken on one day than others. I already
> >know perl but the perl lists haven't got any ideas.
> >
> >Let me try it from another angle. I want to keep disk usage at percentage
> >level defined in $x.
> >
> >I want to delete the oldest day in order to keep this level. I have to
> >delete one day at a time, and only if a second usage check also show above
> >the level, can i delete another day.
> >
> >I have to keep deletetions to a minimum while keeping the disk healthy as
> >people will want to keep their archives for as long as possible.
> 
> You could still use find, it can go by the minute if you like.
> 
> ls -alt|head -5
> will give you the 5 most recent files (usually . and .. first)
> ls -alt|tail -5
> will give you the 5 oldest
> 
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