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01-08-2008
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command for deleting log files based on some condition
Hello,
Can anyone pls. provide me with the command for deleting files older then 15 days with a restriction to keep at least 5 files in a directory even if they are older then 15 days. Any help will be highly appreciated. Thanks, Pulkit 
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01-08-2008
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What is the reason to this on your system, or is it homework?
Regards
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01-09-2008
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Ok, some hints:
To find older files you can use the find command with the -mtime option. To keep 5 files of the selection you can pipe the result to awk, to ignore the first 5 files you can do something like: Code:
awk 'NR<6{next}{print}'
Code:
find <options> | awk '....' | rm -f Code:
...| xargs rm -f Regards
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