=?iso-8859-1?Q?M=E1rio?= Henrique Cruz =?iso-8859-1?Q?T=F4rres?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Good morning everyone. I wan't know if can I delete the first 200 >files ( in alphabetical order ) in a directory wich have >300 files ?
ls -1 | head -200 | xargs rm Be careful, though. Look at what 'ls -1 | head -200' outputs before piping that to rm. > I'm using bash shell. Exactly which shell you're using shouldn't matter for the above. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]