Delete Files based on Date
Kelley.Coleman at med.va.gov
Kelley.Coleman at med.va.gov
Wed Mar 30 16:54:17 UTC 2005
Thank you, Ed and Stephen. The find worked like a charm.
And, yes, VMS does kick butt. ;-)
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Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 9:43 AM
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Subject: Re: Delete Files based on Date
On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 10:30:23AM -0600, Kelley.Coleman at med.va.gov wrote:
> I'm somewhat hampered by my OpenVMS experience with this problem.
VMS forever!!!
> I need a script that will remove all but the latest five files in a
> folder. There is only one file per day and I want to keep five days
> worth.
There are couple of options - find and tmpwatch. Here are some examples:
find /var/log/samba -mtime +5 -exec rm {} \;
tmpwatch 120 /var/log/samba
tmpwatch --nodirs --mtime 120/usr/openv/netbackup/logs/
Both will do what you want. You can look at the various timestamps to
see if you want to base your deletion on created time, modified time, or
access time.
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Ed Wilts, RHCE
Mounds View, MN, USA
mailto:ewilts at ewilts.org
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