delete old files

[johny2K]

i just need help re script that delete old files.

i want to auto-delete files if it's older than current date, i.e., three-days, one-week or 2-weeks old.

in a directory - i have several files created on a daily basis. format for files being created is yymmddXX.CCC, where XX & CCC are constant.

 

[p5wizard]

man find

check option -mtime

HTH,

p5wizard

 

[feherke]

Hi

This will filter the [tt]ls[/tt] list, outputing only names containing date older then 3 days :

ls -1 *XX.CC | \
awk 'systime()-mktime(gensub(/(..)(..)(..).*/,"20\\1 \\2 \\3 00 00 00",""))>60*60*24*3'

If you really want to rely on the file name. Otherwise see p5wizard's advise.

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[columb]

see FAQ80-5793
It's always worth checking the FAQs in this forum AND the General Unix Discussion

Columb Healy