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Help in writing a shell script

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John Jack

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Help in writing a shell script

Feb 14th, 2008

I want a shell script to delete files in a backup directory.

The files in the directory are named according to dates. For example raw_backup071208:061727 (%y%m%d:%H%M%S). I want to compare the dates and make sure that the file is one week old before i delete it.

Thanks

John

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eggi

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Re: Help in writing a shell script

Feb 15th, 2008

Hey There,

You should be able to do this just by using "find"'s -mtime option

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find /directory/ -mtime +7 -exec rm {} \;
find /directory/ -mtime +7 -exec rm {} \;

That will check all the files in /directory/

Hope that helps

, Mike

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