On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 01:44:51PM +, Sharon Kimble wrote:
On Wed, 11 Dec 2013 12:42:51 +0100
Gian Uberto Lauri sa...@eng.it wrote:
Sharon Kimble writes:
But there is no consistency with the creation date, the menu
itself is regenerated whenever I install a new programme, and the
I have this line in a bash script that is not doing what its supposed
to -
'find /home/boudiccas/.fluxbox -type f -mtime +$num -name 'menu-*'
-delete'
where $num = 7 and 'menu-*'=menu-20131209-11:05 . Obviously the date
and time can be different in each case, so how do I get it so that it
deletes
On 11/12/13 21:45, Sharon Kimble wrote:
I have this line in a bash script that is not doing what its supposed
to -
'find /home/boudiccas/.fluxbox -type f -mtime +$num -name 'menu-*'
-delete'
where $num = 7 and 'menu-*'=menu-20131209-11:05 . Obviously the date
and time can be different in
Sharon Kimble writes:
I have this line in a bash script that is not doing what its supposed
to -
'find /home/boudiccas/.fluxbox -type f -mtime +$num -name 'menu-*'
-delete'
where $num = 7 and 'menu-*'=menu-20131209-11:05 . Obviously the date
and time can be different in each case, so
On Wed, 11 Dec 2013 21:58:19 +1100
Scott Ferguson scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com wrote:
On 11/12/13 21:45, Sharon Kimble wrote:
I have this line in a bash script that is not doing what its
supposed to -
'find /home/boudiccas/.fluxbox -type f -mtime +$num -name 'menu-*'
-delete'
On Wed, 11 Dec 2013 12:09:18 +0100
Gian Uberto Lauri sa...@eng.it wrote:
Sharon Kimble writes:
I have this line in a bash script that is not doing what its
supposed to -
'find /home/boudiccas/.fluxbox -type f -mtime +$num -name
'menu-*' -delete'
where $num = 7 and
Sharon Kimble writes:
But there is no consistency with the creation date, the menu itself is
regenerated whenever I install a new programme, and the old menu is
saved with the suffix of the date and time.
I want to delete the 'menu-*' files if there are more than 7, and
the command is
On Wed, 11 Dec 2013 12:42:51 +0100
Gian Uberto Lauri sa...@eng.it wrote:
Sharon Kimble writes:
But there is no consistency with the creation date, the menu
itself is regenerated whenever I install a new programme, and the
old menu is saved with the suffix of the date and time.
I
* Gian Uberto Lauri wrote on 2013-12-11 at 12:42 (+0100):
Sharon Kimble writes:
I want to delete the 'menu-*' files if there are more than 7,
and the command is parsed when I have 'set -x' at the head of
the script but this line does nothing! It runs but doesn't
achieve anything.
I
Sharon Kimble writes:
++ wc -l
++ ls -1 'menu-*'
ls: cannot access menu-*: No such file or directory
+ '[' 0 -gt 7 ']'
I fear that you should either 'cd' to the directory (~/.fluxbox I
suppose) you want to clear before running my code or change it this
way
if [ `ls -1
On Wed, 11 Dec 2013 15:19:22 +0100
Mathias Bauer mba...@gmx.org wrote:
LC_ALL=C ls menu-* | head -n -7 | xargs -r rm
Thank you Mathias, I incorporated the line above into the script and it
works beautifully, thanks. :)
I'll also have a look at the bash tutorials that you posted because I
know
Mathias Bauer writes:
head -n -7
That's the option I did not recall :)
Nice job.
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On 11/12/13 22:14, Sharon Kimble wrote:
On Wed, 11 Dec 2013 21:58:19 +1100
Scott Ferguson scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com wrote:
On 11/12/13 21:45, Sharon Kimble wrote:
I have this line in a bash script that is not doing what its
supposed to -
'find /home/boudiccas/.fluxbox -type f
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