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Subject: Re: shell script to remove dated files
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 10:39:17 +1000
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian T.Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org>
To: "Paul Branston" <apbran@rannoch.demon.co.uk>; "David Okeby"
<david@okeby.com>
Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 10:37 PM
Subject: Re: shell script to remove dated files


> On Tuesday 28 August 2001 06:04, Paul Branston wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 05:31:44AM +0800, David Okeby wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > How do I write a shell script that removes old files?  Say something
of
> > > the order of two weeks old.
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > > David
> > > david@okeby.com
> >
> > have a read at the find man page. You need somethimg like
> >
> > find /path -mtime +14 -exec rm {} \;
>
> I recommend -atime instead.  THis way if they've been reading it, it won't
> vanish on them.  Of course it depends on the purpose of the script.
>

I have an unchecked suspicion that windoze explorer via samba 'accesses' the
files
on any/every directory display ...
therefore the files will never age

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