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Re: Deleting All But The Last n Names in a Fileset
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"Johnson, Tracy" <[log in to unmask]>
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Johnson, Tracy
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Tue, 29 Oct 2002 13:00:21 -0500
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Larry Barnes came up with a winning solution, the command assumes
you have CHGROUPed to the group to the files are:

Larry wrote:
Since you have MPEX, and since you want to just delete the last 3 files in a
listing; presumable because they are the oldest files based on your example,
try this:

run main.pub.vesoft,mpex
  LISTF TR######,6;nopagehead;nototals > listf6
  setlvar end veftempinfo('listf6').eof -3
  print listf6;end=!end > prg
  listf ^prg,2
  yespurge ^prg


BT
NNNN
Tracy Johnson
MSI Schaevitz Sensors 

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