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Re: Deleting All But The Last n Names in a Fileset
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Roy Brown <[log in to unmask]>
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Roy Brown <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 29 Oct 2002 18:03:48 -0000
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---- Original Message ----
From: "Johnson, Tracy" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 5:35 PM
Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] Deleting All But The Last n Names in a Fileset

> O.K. bad example, try again.

> I want to discard all but the last three, and the date stamps
> of the files may vary, because these are RESTOREd files in
> test groups, not production data.  The original dates
> could be ancient.  (However the dates will still be
> relative to each other.  Larry came up with a winning
> solution, in a separate e-mail.)

I was about to ask for the definition of 'last'. Last in a LISTF alphanumeric
order of name, or what?

But now it's solved. Are you going to share?

I'd count the files, build a file n records smaller, LISTF the filenames into
it, and then feed each line to PURGE.
But maybe it's not that definition of 'last' :-(

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Roy Brown

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