[ale] When a script is necessary, and when a piped command is sufficient ?

[esoteric at 3times25.net (Geoffrey)]

Paul Cartwright wrote:

> but I'm sure Geoffrey will have a more elegant method:)

Hopefully one that will really work!

Oops, forgot to parse out the file name.  Since the filename will be 
last in the ls output, you can do the following:

ls -l |sort +5 |awk '{print $NF}'|xargs rm -i

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Until later, Geoffrey