I'm writing a script to find the oldest file in a directory. I know this can be done by using ls -rt | tail -1 but these are rather large directories and that can be somewhat slow since the script will be running constantly.
Are there any other ways to do this that would be faster? I looked to... (2 Replies)
Hi all,
I need your assistance in removing the oldest file in a directory.
I posted the same thread 3 days back and I got the following answer
ls -1 -t | tail -1 | xargs rm
which is not covering the case when there are directories older than the oldest file.
So, could you please... (2 Replies)
I'm trying to write a script that will look in an /exports folder for the oldest export file and move it to a /staging folder. "Oldest" in this case is actually determined by date information embedded in the file names themselves.
Also, the script should only move a file from /exports to... (6 Replies)
Hi all,
I am a newbie to scripting and I need your help regarding finding the oldest file in a particular directory. My intention is to remove that oldest file.
Are there any options available with the "find" command to do this..
Thanks in advance for your help
Pavan (4 Replies)
I am trying to determine the oldest and most recent files in a huge directory. I am using an ls -tr statement outside my find statement. The directory is too big and I am getting an "arg list too long" error. Is there something I can put in my find statement that doesn't create a list to... (2 Replies)
Hey! I have found similar posts both here and on other sites regarding this, but I cannot seem to get my script to work. I want to delete the oldest file in a test directory if there are more than two files. My script is currently:
#!/bin/bash
MEPATH=/usr/local/bin/test
FILECOUNT=`ls... (4 Replies)
I have to move files (one by one) from one dir to another, in such a way that the oldest file should be moved first followed by the latest file. The source dir (from where I am moving files) may contains a minimum of 20K files at any point of time. I am not able to use "ls -ltr" as it throws error... (6 Replies)
Hi All,
I need to delete the oldest file in folder when the file count in the folder exceed 6 ( i have a process that puts the source files into this folder )
E.x : Folder : /data/opt/backup
01/01/2012 a.txt
01/02/2012 b.txt
... (1 Reply)
There are some 25,000 files in 7,000 directories in my source library and I am trying to find oldest files. I am running this find:
find /usr/mysrc -name "*." -type f -mtime +8000 -exec ls -l {} 2>/dev/null
and playing with the days parameter for mtime, but the output is not sorted... (3 Replies)
Hello,
I have a simple while loopinside the script and I wish to tell unix to start reading from the oldest txt file. So, in case some new txt files are transferred into the same folder, the script will not take into consideration until all older files are completely processed. How may I do this?... (3 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT MINIX
rmdir
RMDIR(2) System Calls Manual RMDIR(2)NAME
rmdir - remove a directory file
SYNOPSIS
#include <unistd.h>
int rmdir(const char *path)
DESCRIPTION
Rmdir removes a directory file whose name is given by path. The directory must not have any entries other than "." and "..".
RETURN VALUE
A 0 is returned if the remove succeeds; otherwise a -1 is returned and an error code is stored in the global location errno.
ERRORS
The named file is removed unless one or more of the following are true:
[ENOTDIR] A component of the path is not a directory.
[ENAMETOOLONG] The path name exceeds PATH_MAX characters.
[ENOENT] The named directory does not exist.
[ELOOP] Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the pathname. (Minix-vmd)
[ENOTEMPTY] The named directory contains files other than ``.'' and ``..'' in it.
[EACCES] Search permission is denied for a component of the path prefix.
[EACCES] Write permission is denied on the directory containing the link to be removed.
[EPERM] The directory containing the directory to be removed is marked sticky, and neither the containing directory nor the direc-
tory to be removed are owned by the effective user ID.
[EBUSY] The directory to be removed is the mount point for a mounted file system.
[EIO] An I/O error occurred while deleting the directory entry or deallocating the inode.
[EROFS] The directory entry to be removed resides on a read-only file system.
[EFAULT] Path points outside the process's allocated address space.
SEE ALSO mkdir(2), unlink(2).
4.2 Berkeley Distribution August 26, 1985 RMDIR(2)