Excerpts from wagnerdm's message of Tue Jul 07 17:26:35 +0200 2009:
> Quoting Marc Weber <[email protected]>:
> 
> >   ls -1t "$dump_dir"/sup-dumps-* | { read; read; read; read; cat } | xargs 
> > rm
> 
> "{ read; read; read; read; cat }" could probably better be done as  
> "tail +5"; makes it easier to adjust to people's choice of backup  
> count, too. ;-)
> - Daniel "Bikeshedder" Wagner

"tail -n+5", which is POSIX compatible

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