On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 12:16:54PM -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: > Since there is a lot of knowledge on this list, I thought I'd aske > here. > > This may be trivial, but I'm not even sure how to search for what I > want to do. > > I have a directory of files that are created daily using > filename-`date +%Y%m%d`.tar.gz so I have a directory with files whose > names advance from filename-20061201.tar.gz to filename-20061202.tar.gz > to filename-20061203.tar.gz and so on. Based on the date in the > filename, I would like to delete any than are X days older than today's > date. So, I'm not interested in the actual created/modified date, just > the numeric string in the name. > > Despite working in Bash for the past ten years or so, my shell > scripting skills are poor. Logically, this seems like a simple test of > whether the name is older than the current day - X, but I'm having > trouble putting this into a script. povided that the file was not modified since it was created (ctime equals creation time)
find $DIR -ctime +$DAYS -print0|xarg -0 rm should probaly work. not tested, though... (use at you own risk) yours albert -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
