Yeah, I'd still do it in Perl. Why? Because I do just about everything in Perl. I've worked with that type of file; it's more programming to make my approach work (probably not worth it.) Larry Wall might observe that there's always another way to do it.
On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 2:21 PM, Howard White <[email protected]> wrote: > On 12/05/2012 02:15 PM, Curt Lundgren wrote: > >> I wrote a Perl script a few years ago that deletes files from a >> directory that are older than n number of days. We generally set n to >> 30 days, but you can set it to be anything you want. >> > > Curt, > > I am able to delete files like individual log files or print files that > are discrete files. But /var/spool/mail/root has all of the messages to > root in one file. We run a cron like: > > find /somedir/some_pattern* -mtime +31 -type f | xargs rm -f > > > Howard > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscribe@** > googlegroups.com <nlug-talk%[email protected]> > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/** > group/nlug-talk?hl=en <http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en
