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Remove all but X most recent files in directory (See related posts)

Remove all but 5 (or whatever number) of the most recent files in a directory. Great if you have a directory of log files and you only want to keep a few of the recent ones.
rm `ls -t | awk 'NR>5'`

to shell bash by will on Wed Jun 29 05:44:19 +0000 2005

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