[H-GEN] chestnut

[Christopher Biggs]

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Sarah Hollings <sarah at humanfactors.uq.edu.au> moved upon the face of the 'Net and spake thusly:

>
> Anyone know of a simple one-[or-two]-liner (in bash or perl -e) for
> deleting the oldest file in a directory?

$ rm -f 'ls -t | tail -1'



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