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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting remove some files on a condition.. Post 27088 by RTM on Tuesday 27th of August 2002 04:59:57 PM
Old 08-27-2002
Realize scripting is just putting into a file what you would do manually (but adding the 'thinking' part - the logic to delete only those files - is the hard part).

You could take your command and put it in a script to collect the file names, and then loop through them and delete. You would have to pull out the last piece of the ls -lt (after confirming it to be in the range you want to delete) and delete it.


You also have to watch out that the file you are going to delete isn't a directory, that you set yourself into the correct directory...


Your first step, finding your files is coverend in your command:
ls -lt | grep "Aug 26" | grep 11:14

Put that into an awk statement to print the last portion of the string (the filename), check that it is a text file (or whatever) and not a directory, special, link, ... file, then delete it.
 

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LEARN ABOUT HPUX

ipsec_config_delete

ipsec_config_delete(1M) 												   ipsec_config_delete(1M)

NAME

       ipsec_config_delete - delete configuration records from the HP-UX IPSec configuration database and delete certificate files

SYNOPSIS

       object_name

       ip_addr

       object_name

       object_name

       object_name

       object_name

DESCRIPTION

       The  command deletes configuration records from the configuration database and certificate data.  If HP-UX IPSec is active and running, the
       data (IPsec policy, authentication record or bypass list entry) is also deleted from the runtime policy	database.   If	you  delete  IPsec
       policies  that have active Security Associations (SAs), HP-UX IPSec removes the SAs from the Security Association Database (SADB) and sends
       a delete notification to the remote system.  If HP-UX IPSec removes an IKE policy, the associated IPSec SAs can remain active, but  no  IKE
       control messages can be sent.

       The  command deletes the certificate for the local system and the related private key file from the directory.  It does not delete certifi-
       cates for CAs or Certificate Revocation Lists (CRLs).  To delete these objects, you must manually delete the files in the  directory.   You
       can use the command to display the file names with the subject names for the CA certificate files and the issuer names for the CRL files.

       You cannot delete the configuration object.

   Options and Operands
       The command recognizes the following options and operands:

	      object_name
		   Specifies the name of the object you are deleting.

		   Do not use this argument when deleting a configuration object.

		   You cannot delete the host, IKEv1, or IKEv2 policies.

	      ip_addr
		   Specifies the IP address of the entry in the bypass list you are deleting.

EXAMPLES

       The following command deletes the host IPsec policy named

AUTHOR

       was developed by HP.

FILES

       configuration database.

       default			profile file.

SEE ALSO

       ipsec_admin(1M),    ipsec_config(1M),   ipsec_config_add(1M),   ipsec_config_batch(1M),	 ipsec_config_export(1M),   ipsec_config_show(1M),
       ipsec_migrate(1M), ipsec_policy(1M), ipsec_report(1M).

							   HP-UX IPSec Software Required				   ipsec_config_delete(1M)
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