little scripting help needed!!

vats · #1 (**permalink**) 09-02-2007

guys i need bit of help!!

i am writing a script which finds files that have not been accessed for a no of days and delete those files...the no of days value is inputted at the command line....

i am using the following :
find $1 -atime +7 -exec rm -i

in the second step i want to copy all of those files that the above lines find to a list and archive them using GNU tar...once i archive these files i can go on and delete them.....Also the archive name should include the date so that a existing archive not be overwritten...

any help guys????

Klashxx · #2 (**permalink**) 09-02-2007

Hi, not tested , but you can try:

Code:

 find $1 -atime +7|xargs -i ksh -c 'echo {} >>/tmp/list;mv {}  /tmp'

dt=$(date +%Y%m%d)

tar cvzf file${dt} /tmp/*

digen · #3 (**permalink**) 09-02-2007

Shouldn't it be,

Quote:

find . -atime $1

for the find command to find files which haven't been accessed over 24 hours*n ? Since the number of days would be input using the positional parameter ?

Quote:

-atime n
File was last accessed n*24 hours ago. When find figures out how many 24-hour periods ago the file was last accessed, any fractional part is ignored, so to match -atime +1, a file has to have been accessed atleast two days ago.

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