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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

-- 
Exherbo KDE, X.org maintainer


      parent reply	other threads:[~2009-07-07 16:19 UTC|newest]

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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