Removing files

[Chacalinc]

I was reading the thread822-924121 and I also need to remove files from a specific folder. This folder is for Oracle archived logs and I need to remove all the files that were created (in the same day!) before 22:00 hours. I mean, erase all files between 22:00 hrs. yesterday to 22:hrs. today.

this cron should be running everyday at 22:01 or 22:30 (after 22:00)

I was reading the man for find, but mtime is in a day basis.

Thanks in advance for your help.

 

[Chacalinc]

BTW, using the thread I can delete files older than one day:

# find . \( -type d ! -name . -prune \) -o \( -type f -mtime +1 -exec rm {} \; \)

so the problem is to delete files older than 22:00 hrs.

Thanks.

 

[PHV]

man date
man touch
man find (for ! -newer)

Hope This Helps, PH.
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[Chacalinc]

great! thanks PHV, you get me in the right direction:

# echo "mark file..." > mark.txt
# touch -m -t `date "+%m%d"`2200 mark.txt
# find . \( -type d ! -name . -prune \) -o \( -type f ! -newer mark.txt -exec rm {} \; \)

thanks a lot!