Shell Programming and Scripting

I will try it tonight at home (now I am already in the office, Italy) and I will let you know.

In the meanwhile thank you so much.

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Hello,
I am testing the script.

In my current version, I delete all files oder than $MM.
Now I need to start the deletion from the oldest file in the path/directory and the deletion should stop either when I delete $MM minutes of files in total or $GG mb of files in total (starting from the oldest one) whatever is easier to implement.

Can you please check it? I apologize if I have not been very clear.

Thanks,
daniele


Thanks for helping,
daniele

The closing ' is missing, at the end of the embedded awk script.
I wonder if you can simply do

Code:

find . -type f -mmin +$MM -printf "%T@ %s %h/%f\\n" |
 sort -n | 
 awk -vMXSZ=$GG '(TOTSZ+=$2) >= MXSZ { exit } { print "rm -i", $3 }'

It works!
How can I "pipe through sh"? Shall I replace print with sh?

Thanks,
daniele

Code:

.....
{exit}' | sh