How do I delete all but 10 newest files in Linux?

For a portable and reliable solution, try this: The syntax in one of the other answers doesn't seem to work everywhere (i.e., not on my RHEL5 systems). And using or on the command line of runs the risk of splitting file names with whitespace, and exceeding the maximum commandline character limit. fixes both of these problems because it'll automatically figure out how many args it can pass within the character limit, and with the it will only split at the line boundary of the input. Technically …