[H-GEN] chestnut

[Russell Stuart]

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On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 09:40, Sarah Hollings wrote:
> Anyone know of a simple one-[or-two]-liner (in bash or perl -e) for 
> deleting the oldest file in a directory?

rm `/bin/ls -rt directory | sed 1q`

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