clean up script - Shell Programming and Scripting

mpang_ · #1 (**permalink**) 07-17-2006

I have a script which would monitor a given directory and delete any files which are older than 10 days. I was going to set the 10 crob jobs to perform this operation for 10 different directories (some are actually sub-directories), but my boss doesn't like that idea, so I need to do that in one script, besides of hard-coding all these directories, does anyone have any other idea? Thanks

blowtorch · #2 (**permalink**) 07-17-2006

You could just hardcode the directory names in the script if you wanted... its just going to be ten lines. Then you could run the script as a cron job.
Now, if you are not comfortable with that, you could have a script that reads the directory names from a file and runs the find on that.

Code:

while read dirname; do
   find $dirname -type f -mtime +9 -exec # do whatever you want here
done < /path/to/list_of_dirnames

The second method will be preferable if the list of directories to clean is going to change often or grow larger over time

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