From: ingmar@exherbo.org (Ingmar Vanhassel)
Subject: [sup-talk] Backups ?
Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2009 18:19:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1246983494-sup-6924@cannonball> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090707112635.14736pk1mxi8r9k4@webmail.seas.upenn.edu>
Excerpts from wagnerdm's message of Tue Jul 07 17:26:35 +0200 2009:
> Quoting Marc Weber <marco-oweber at gmx.de>:
>
> > ls -1t "$dump_dir"/sup-dumps-* | { read; read; read; read; cat } | xargs rm
>
> "{ read; read; read; read; cat }" could probably better be done as
> "tail +5"; makes it easier to adjust to people's choice of backup
> count, too. ;-)
> - Daniel "Bikeshedder" Wagner
"tail -n+5", which is POSIX compatible
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Exherbo KDE, X.org maintainer
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-07 13:08 Marc Weber
2009-07-07 15:26 ` wagnerdm at seas.upenn.edu
2009-07-07 16:10 ` Ben Walton
2009-07-07 16:19 ` Ingmar Vanhassel [this message]
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