while loop to delete old files

[jalge2]

A little help would be great. I'm creating a script to delete old history log files. I'm in a directory and here is my code so far. I have no clue how to write a while loop with this information. Thanks for the help. ###VARIABLES###
+3 date1=`date +%Y%m%d`
+4 date2=`expr $date1`
+5 less=$(($date2 - 7 ))
+6 less1=$(($less - 1))

I have my variables set, but I need this

to keep running $less1 until it erases every file, 7 days or older. If you don't follow, please let me know. Thanks a lot.

Jason Alge

 

[Morsing]

You can do it much easier with 'find' or 'skulker'.

# find /tmp -atime +7 -type d -exec rm {} \;

or look at the man page for skulker.

Cheers Henrik Morsing
Certified AIX 4.3 Systems Administration
& p690 Technical Support

 

[sectorseveng]

find /directory -atime +7 |xargs -i rm {}

man find
man xargs

 

[Morsing]

Oops, typo: That should have been '-type f'.

Cheers Henrik Morsing
Certified AIX 4.3 Systems Administration
& p690 Technical Support