Removing files by file extension. 2

[M0d]

Hello.

I would like to run a crontab script which removes certain files by extension in a specific directory.
I want to keep *.zip files and a file called upload.html

i.e

/files/hello.zip <- keep
/files/upload.html <-keep
/files/*.anythingelse <- delete

Thanks very much in advance for any help.
-Greg

 

[olded]

Greg:

One way: Use find to search the /files directory for all files not equal to the files you want to keep. Ulitimately, pipe the find output to the rm command. xargs ensures not overflowing the command line:


find /files -type f ! \( -name '*.zip' -o -name 'upload.html' \) -print|
xargs rm

I didn't test this from cron, but put the above find command into script, and make sure PATH is set to find the find, xargs, and rm commands.

Regards,

Ed

 

[M0d]

Thanks very much, that works great.
Cheers!
Greg

 

[homBase]

Here is a sample of what you could do. If you test make sure it is tested in a safe enviornment.

hombase

-----------------------------------------------------------
#!/bin/csh

set Lp_CNT = 0;

printf &quot;What directory would you like to clean: \n&quot;
set DIR = $<

cd $DIR

mkdir files

while(1)

if(Lp_CNT == 1)
exit;
endif

foreach file (*.zip)
mv $file TEMP
end

foreach file1 (*.html)
mv $file1 TEMP
end
# check the -f to ensure this the what you want.
if(-f *.* != $file || $file1) # I haven't test this
rm *.* # but it should work,
endif # if not tweak the
# condition.
@ Lp_CNT++

end hombase

 

[homBase]

Sorry I didn't place &quot;then&quot; after the if statements.

printf &quot;What directory would you like to clean: \n&quot;
set DIR = $<

cd $DIR

mkdir files

while(1)

if(Lp_CNT == 1) then
exit;
endif

foreach file (*.zip)
mv $file TEMP
end

foreach file1 (*.html)
mv $file1 TEMP
end
# check the -f to ensure this the what you want.
if(-f *.* != $file || $file1) then # I haven't test this
rm *.* # but it should work,
endif # if not tweak the
# condition.
@ Lp_CNT++

end hombase