I have a directory tree like the following:
Games
-- Game1
-- file1
-- file2
-- file3
-- Game2
-- file1
-- file2
-- GameN
-- filen
And I would like to delete the oldest file for each Game subdirectory.
Tried searching for the various questions already posted but didn’t find a solution.
Thanks
>Solution :
If the files not containing special characters, like \n (no problem with files with spaces):
for dir in Games/Game*/; do
(
cd "$dir"
echo rm "$(\ls -tr | sed q)"
)
done
This is the only one case where I parse ls
Drop echo command if your attempts are satisfactory.
ls -trsort files by date of modification in reverse order.sed qtake the first line