On Fri, 25 Dec 1998, EGRET Lures wrote:
> Is there a way of removing old backup files on a system wide basis? I have
> searched through "Linux in a Nutshell" and hadn't noticed anything. All I
> want to keep are the latest versions.
> TIA Henry
Checkout the 'find' command. It will let you search the disk for files
meeting certain characterstisics and then execute command operations on
what it finds. You could also just write a basic shell script to do what
you want and put it or some find stuff inside a cronjob to be run at such
frequency as you choose. ex: "find . -name *.old -ok {} \;"
This would find files in the current dir (.) bye _name_ with and *.old
name and and then ask you (-ok) if it's ok to remove these files.
-M
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