Super delete oldest files(Linux): Be in the directory.
This script can used where large number of files need to be deleted, tested up 6K files:
Caution:
1. Be in the directory
2. Replace 200 with number of files to be deleted
FYI: verify $9 is file names for your system.
ls -ltr *.arc|head -200|awk '{print $9}'|while read FL
do
list=`echo $list $FL`
wcnt=`echo $list|wc -c`
if [[ $wcnt -gt 235 ]]
then
echo $list
echo "rm -rf $list"|sh &
unset list;
fi
echo "Jobs";jobs
while true
do
cnt=`ps -ef|grep rm|grep -v grep|wc -l`;echo $cnt
if [[ $cnt -gt 10 ]]
then
echo "Jobs";jobs
echo "COUNT = $cnt"; sleep 5;
else
break;
fi
done
done
