Hi,

I'm Eddy from Belgium and I've the following problem.

I try to write a ksh script in AIX to tar, compress and remove the original *.wav files from the directory belgacom_sf_messages older than two days with the following commands.

The problem is that I do not find a good combination to handle this.


#!/bin/ksh
#
MAIN_DIR=/tmp/belgacom_sf_messages
integer set COMPRESSDAYS=3
integer set DELETEDAYS=3
tar -cvf - ${MAIN_DIR} 2>/tmp/file.tar
#
find ${MAIN_DIR} ! -name \*.wav -mtime -3 -exec gzip {} \;
find ${MAIN_DIR} -name \*.gz -mtime -3 -exec rm {} \;
#
##########Tested and ok##########
#tar -cvf - ${MAIN_DIR} 2> /tmp/Eddy.tar |gzip -c1 > file.tar.Z


Can somebody advises me how to do this.

Thanks in advance.

Best regards.
Eddy.

Hi Eddy,

this is not AIX specific - I move this thread to Shell Programming and Scripting - The UNIX and Linux Forums. Also use CODE tags to display code, logs, data etc., ty.

Maybe try something like this
If you are going to archive this often, maybe add a date into the filename or something. Also when specifiying variables like those with ...DAYS=3, use them in your commands ^^

didn't test it. Bit looks like it should work

Hi.

Thanks a lot for helping me.
There is one thing I do not understand.
I 've four wav files with a different date.

-rw-r----- 1 dtuser staff 258904 Apr 22 09:53 3210223758_73072441618_20090415151440972.wav
-rw-r----- 1 dtuser staff 192504 Apr 21 09:53 3210224056_73073919768_20090418102231949.wav
-rw-r----- 1 dtuser staff 258904 Apr 20 09:53 3210223758_73072441618_20090415151440972.wav
-rw-r----- 1 dtuser staff 192504 Apr 19 09:53 3210224056_73073919768_20090418102231949.wav

Using the recommended commands in my test scrip have no making any sense.

find ${MAIN_DIR} -name *.wav -mtime -3 > FILE_LIST
or
find ${MAIN_DIR} -name \*.wav -mtime -3 -exec mv {} \;

-mtime -3 or -mtime -5 or -mtime -10 makes no difference.
The result is that all files are compressed and removed instaed of the files of three days old.

Best regards.
Eddy.

-mtime -3 means the find criteria is for looking files modified in the last 3 days

In your case, you need to use -mtime +3 as you want to perform it on files older than 3 days.