awk or ksh script ....

[aixnag]

Hi,

would like to delete application logfiles from various direcotries which are two,seven,15 days old. I don't want to use #find with -mtime , its bit messy sometimes.

curently am manually using this method.
# touch -t mmddhhmm <testfile>
#find /test ! -newer <testfile> -exec rm {} \;

Every time am changing date for running this task. Any way of automising of these tasks.

any suggesstions??? any scripts ready with you.

thanks in advance.

aixnag
IBM Certified Specialist - P-series AIX 5L Administration
IBM Certified Specialist - AIX V4 HACMP

 

[hallux]

Each time you run the script you could get the current date information in the format needed for the touch command using the following:

# touch -t `date +%m%d%H%M` <testfile>

Sample output from date command w/ arguments:
$ date +%m%d%H%M
06091029

-Hallux

 

[aixnag]

Hi,

Am looking for something like this.

say today's date 12th june.
need to touch three files 1. with 2 days old (10th june) 2.with 7 days old (5th june) 3. with 15 days (27th may )from the current date.

thanks in advance.



aixnag
IBM Certified Specialist - P-series AIX 5L Administration
IBM Certified Specialist - AIX V4 HACMP

 

[hallux]

The following would give you two days back:
echo $(($(date +%d)-2))

-Hallux

 

[pmurray99]

#!/usr/bin/ksh

#
# get_date
#
# function to return day month year relative to today.
# $1 = +n|-n
# $2 = y, display on tty
#
# Ensure TZ variable looks something like:-
# EST-10EDT-11
# NOT like australia/nsw
#

get_date()
{

[[ $# -lt 1 ]] &&
{
message &quot; Usage: get_day -n|+n&quot;
return 1
}

offset=$(print $TZ | sed -e &quot;s/.*$(date +%Z)\([+-]*[0-9][0-9]*\).*/\1/&quot

[[ $(expr $1 : ^[+-]) -eq 0 ]] &&
{
message &quot;Invalid argument &quot;
return 1
}

if [ $(expr $1 : ^[-]) -ne 0 ]; then
n=&quot;+&quot;$((${1#-}*24))
else
n=&quot;-&quot;$((${1#+}*24))
fi

offset=$(($offset${n}))
day=$(TZ=XXX$offset date +%d)
mon=$(TZ=XXX$offset date +%m)
year=$(TZ=XXX$offset date +%Y)
hour=$(TZ=XXX$offset date +%H)
min=$(TZ=XXX$offset date +%M)


[[ $# -eq 2 ]] && print &quot;${mon}${day}${hour}${min}&quot;
return 0
}

export TZ=EST-10EDT-11

for d in 2 7 15
do
> $(get_date -${d} y)
done

 

[aixnag]

Hi,

The above script served my purpose. Thanks pmurray.



aixnag
IBM Certified Specialist - P-series AIX 5L Administration
IBM Certified Specialist - AIX V4 HACMP