On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 1:26 AM, Zico <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks a lot! Now, Say, there are five files... 1 2 3 4 & 5. Now, I want to > rename and replace the new inserted sixth file as 1, seventh file as 2 ... > and so on. What should be my script command? By the way, there will be no > more than "five" modified files there!! >
You're basically looking to replace the oldest file at all times, kinda like log rotation, so you can simply follow the logic: n=$(ls -1|wc -l) lf n < 5 then create the n+1th file else replace the file you get with ls -1t|tail -1 end if -- Siddhesh Poyarekar http://siddhesh.in _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
