Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 07:45:45 -0600 From: Duke Normandin <01031149@3web.net> To: "Sabhanam, Srinivas (GEP)" <Srinivas.Sabhanam@gepex.ge.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Unix Shell Script Question Message-ID: <20010418074545.B216997@mandy.rockingd.calgary.ab.ca> In-Reply-To: <0B79B104AA51D311982F009027866BC502273D4F@SEHKG002>; from "Sabhanam, Srinivas (GEP)" on Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 01:03:07AM References: <0B79B104AA51D311982F009027866BC502273D4F@SEHKG002>
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On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 01:03:07AM -0400, Sabhanam, Srinivas (GEP) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Could you pls. let me know how to delete files in Unix that are older than
> specified days?
>
> Your help will be highly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Srinivas Sabhanam
Hi....
The attached is what I use to 'rm' files. You can use the guts of
'purge.sh' to do what you want. Later....
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-duke
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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#!/bin/sh
if (mv $* ~/tmp)
then
echo -e '\nfiles have been moved to your ~/tmp directory.'
echo -e 'To remove them use the purge command\n'
else
echo 'An error occured -- files not moved!'
fi
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#!/bin/sh
#
# A script to purge files that have been "mv"ed to the ~/tmp directory
# as a result of the aliased "rm" command. Checks for files not changed
# in the last 7 days and removes them.
#
cd ~/tmp
if (/bin/find . -ctime +7 -ok rm {} \; )
then
echo -e "\nfiles older than 7 days in ~/tmp have been removed."
else
echo "An error has occured -- files not removed!"
fi
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