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change your extention to file.YYMMDD it will be much easier to sort and to find the latest 2
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Redimido, when user hasn't run rotation script for last two days (suppose system was down), <br />
your script will remove all files and will not leave the latest two.
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Nopius: Yes, and that's good enough if you want to have the last 'n' days instead of the last 'n' logs.<br />
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if the system was down, well, then it was down. no further problem.<br />
if the user forgot to run the rotation script, so then it will not run this script neither.<br />
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&nbsp;=)
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the file in the backup as below:<br />
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file.zip.270306<br />
file.zip.230306<br />
file.zip.200306<br />
.<br />
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i need to create a script where to keep only the latest 2 file date. example from above the script will remove file.zip.200306. and will keep the file.zip.270306 and file.zip.230306<br />
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Part of my script...the test.zip is in the /folder and backup folder is at /folder/backup. My script purposes is....move the test.zip in folder directory then change the name to test.zip.DDMMYY<br />
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#/bin/bash<br />
file=test.zip<br />
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ls -t /folder/file.zip.* | sed 1,2d | while read file ; do<br />
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;rm $file<br />
done<br />

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the file in the backup as below:

file.zip.270306
file.zip.230306
file.zip.200306
.

i need to create a script where to keep only the latest 2 file date. example from above the script will remove file.zip.200306. and will keep the file.zip.270306 and file.zip.230306

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Part of my script...the test.zip is in the /folder and backup folder is at /folder/backup. My script purposes is....move the test.zip in folder directory then change the name to test.zip.DDMMYY

#/bin/bash
file=test.zip

ls -t /folder/file.zip.* | sed 1,2d | while read file ; do
         rm $file
done


change your extention to file.YYMMDD it will be much easier to sort and to find the latest 2

Redimido, when user hasn&#39;t run rotation script for last two days (suppose system was down), 
your script will remove all files and will not leave the latest two.

Nopius: Yes, and that&#39;s good enough if you want to have the last &#39;n&#39; days instead of the last &#39;n&#39; logs.

if the system was down, well, then it was down. no further problem.
if the user forgot to run the rotation script, so then it will not run this script neither.

 =)

remove old date by shell script

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