Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi

We have to delete PDF files and Folders older than five days .Can anyone help with the shell script

Regards
Ved

check this:

Code:

find <directory> -name "*.[pPdDfF]" -ctime +5 -exec rm {} \;

where <directory> is the directory structure that the pdf's are in. the funkiness in " " just checks for any combination of upper-case and lower-case p d f. the only part i'm not 100% on is the -ctime, whether it should be -mtime or not

"*.[pPdDfF]" should be "*.[pP][dD][fF]"
I have not tried the script myself

Hi

But i am new to shell scripting.How do you give the path here.I mean can you please help me with complete script.

Regards

you already have the complete script ... just put in the correct directory name where <directory> is ... here's chuckuykendalls's code with sssow's modification ...

Code:

find <directory> -name "*.[pP][dD][fF]" -ctime +5 -exec rm {} \;

Hi guys

even though i am new i tried to put like this

Is this correct

#!/bin/sh
echo "Removing tmp directories and PDF files older than 5 days created by users"
#!/bin/sh
cd /opt/dctm/....Path
echo 'Current Direcotory is' $PWD

"find ./ -name '*.pdf' -mtime +5 >>test.out"

find ./ -type d -mtime +5 -exec rm -R {} \;

find ./ -name '*.pdf' -exec rm '{}' ';'

"find ./ -name '*.pdf' -mtime +5 >>test1.out"

diff test.out,test1.out >> test2.out

mailx -s" Deleted Files For $TODAY at $TIME" xyz.com <test2.out

I am trying to delete folders and pdf files in temp and trying to write before and after and comparing to get deleted files and mailing them.

Code:

find ./ -name '*.pdf' -exec rm {} \;

"find ./ -name '*.pdf' -mtime +5 >>test1.out"

your code as written will not do what you want as it removes ALL the ".pdf" files before listing those ".pdf" files that are older than 5 days --- your listing will always come out clean since you don't have any ".pdf" files to list ...

btw, i suggest you keep to the same programming style throughout your script --- makes it easier to debug that way ... and don't put your command line in double quotes as the shell will most likely not run it ...

Code:

find ./ -type d -mtime +5 -exec rm -R {} \;

find ./ -name '*.pdf' -exec rm '{}' ';'

find ./ -name '*.pdf' -mtime +5 >>test1.out