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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Deletion of Logs Post 302107128 by sb008 on Wednesday 14th of February 2007 12:35:27 PM
Old 02-14-2007
Using the "-t" option of "ls" you can list files sorted by the (modification) time stamp.
Using the "-E" option of "ls" you can have all time stamps displayed in the same format.

e.g.
ls -tE | sed 1d | head -1 | nawk '{ print $6 }'

Will display the modification date, in yyyy-mm-dd format, of the file which was modified most recent.

Using some date calculation (see other threads) you can find out how many days ago this file was modified.

Once you know this offset you can add to it the number of days representingg the 2 months. You can take just 60 for the 2 months or calculate it exactly considering whether the 2 months before had 28, 29, 30 or 31 days.

Once you have a new offset you can use "find . -mtime +(newoffset)" to remove the files.

Today it is Feb 14, 2007
Suppose your most recent log file was created on Jan 28, 2007

with ls -tE ............ you can find the date 2007-01-28

Using date math you can find out 2007-01-28 is 17 days ago compared to today.

Add the 60 (or 61, 31 for dec and 30 for nov) days to 17 resulting in 77 (or 78).

An offset of 78 days from today backwards is Nov 28, 2006

Using find . -mtime +77 ............. you can delete all files last modified before Nov 28, 2006

This would remove all file 2 months older than Jan 28, 2007
 

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DateTime::Format::Natural::Lang::EN(3pm)		User Contributed Perl Documentation		  DateTime::Format::Natural::Lang::EN(3pm)

NAME
DateTime::Format::Natural::Lang::EN - English language metadata DESCRIPTION
"DateTime::Format::Natural::Lang::EN" provides the english specific grammar and variables. This class is loaded if the user either specifies the english language or implicitly. EXAMPLES
Below are some examples of human readable date/time input in english (be aware that the parser does not distinguish between lower/upper case; furthermore, many expressions allow for additional leading/trailing time and all times are also parsable with precision in seconds): Simple now yesterday today tomorrow morning afternoon evening noon midnight yesterday at noon yesterday at midnight today at noon today at midnight tomorrow at noon tomorrow at midnight this morning this afternoon this evening yesterday morning yesterday afternoon yesterday evening today morning today afternoon today evening tomorrow morning tomorrow afternoon tomorrow evening thursday morning thursday afternoon thursday evening 6:00 yesterday 6:00 today 6:00 tomorrow 5am yesterday 5am today 5am tomorrow 4pm yesterday 4pm today 4pm tomorrow last second this second next second last minute this minute next minute last hour this hour next hour last day this day next day last week this week next week last month this 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DateTime::Format::Natural AUTHOR
Steven Schubiger <schubiger@cpan.org> LICENSE
This program is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See <http://dev.perl.org/licenses/> perl v5.14.2 2012-05-31 DateTime::Format::Natural::Lang::EN(3pm)
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