removing old files

[jalge2]

I've got a bunch of history files with this naming convention.

hislog.20030301
hislog.20030228

As you can see, these are history files with a date on the end as an expression. I'm trying to remove all files that are 7 days or older using this expression at the end of the file name. I'm getting an error of a test unknown operator on line 10. Please help. Here is my script.


#!/bin/ksh

##Variables##
date1=`date +%Y%m%d`
date2=`expr $date1`
less=$(($date2 - 7))

##Script##
cd /dso/mis/scripts/delhislog
if [ *.* =< *.$less1 ]

then rm
fi
exit

I'm having problems with my if statement and was wondering if someone could help me out. Thanks a lot.

Jason Alge

 

[dickiebird]

Your idea won't work for any day less than 7th day of every month.
Use find :
find /dirname -name &quot;hislog.2003????&quot; -mtime -7 -exec rm {} \;
That'll remove all for this year > 7 days old.
HTH
Dickie Bird (-)))