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count-remove-oldest.sh
# The script receives the limit as an argument.
limit=$1
number_of_files=$(ls ./files | wc -l)
if [ $number_of_files -gt $limit ]
then
# There are more files than the limit
# So we need to remove the older ones.
cd files
ls -t | tail --lines=+$(expr $limit + 1) | xargs -d '\n' rm
fi
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