script to move 10 oldest files from one directory to another 1

[billy1]

Hi,

our database writes archived files to a directory. When this directory fills up it crashes the application. I usually move the 10 oldest files to another directory.
Is there a script that I can run everytime the directory fills up to move the last ten files from one directory to another ?

Many thanks!

 

[Ygor]

If your database application regularly crashes, then you should consider creating a cron script to monitor the free space, eg.

#!/usr/bin/ksh
freespace=$(df -b /archive/dir|awk '{print $5}')
if [ "$freespace" -lt 32768 ]
then
mv $(ls -tr /archive/dir|head) /another/dir
fi

 

[billy1]

Brilliant Ygor !!
Thanks!!

 

[parbhani]

Also we can use the following ,

for i in `/usr/bin/ls -t | tail -10 `
do
mv $i $target_dir
done

Just an option .