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# 1  
Old 03-03-2008
Script to Analyze folders and subfolders
I would like to know if there is a script out there that someone may have already written that I can use to analyze folders and sub folders on my AIX system.
It can be in perl or a basic korn script.

Thanks in advance.
# 2  
Old 03-03-2008
Question Analyze to report on what?
Scripts are around that look at many different things. What are you hoping to learn?
-large files
-old files
-files from specific users
etc...
# 3  
Old 03-03-2008
I am looking for a bit of both. Mainly old files. I would like to scan a server to see if there are some files that can be removed from the server. I run weekly backups and if there are some stale files that could be removed from my backups.

Thanks

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Originally Posted by joeyg
Scripts are around that look at many different things. What are you hoping to learn?
-large files
-old files
-files from specific users
etc...
# 4  
Old 03-03-2008
Have a look at the manpage for the "find" command. It can do all of that and more.
# 5  
Old 03-04-2008
hi,

For example,

if you want to remove the files older than 30 days means ,

find . -mtime +30 -exec rm {}\;

the above command will search for the files in current directory and removes the one which is older than 30 days.
# 6  
Old 03-04-2008
I dont want to remove the files just yet. I just want the output to be generated to a file so I know what to clean up.

Thanks
# 7  
Old 03-04-2008
as it's been previously suggested - look into 'man find'.
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