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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting A Batch job to delete files from various directories Post 302193307 by andryk on Friday 9th of May 2008 03:17:02 AM
Old 05-09-2008
Hi,
Here's a idea, wrapper.sh
Code:
while read dir age
do
        echo Cleaning $dir +$age ...
        my_file_remover.sh $dir $age
done < /path/to/oneconfig/file

Put wrapper.sh in cron and you're done. Smilie
 

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AGE(4)							   BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual 						    AGE(4)

NAME
age -- Attansic L1 10/100/Gigabit Ethernet device SYNOPSIS
age* at pci? atphy* at mii? DESCRIPTION
The age driver provides support for Ethernet interfaces based on the Attansic L1 Ethernet chipset. The age driver supports IPv4 receive IP/TCP/UDP checksum offload and VLAN tag insertion and stripping. The following media types are supported: autoselect Enable autoselection of the media type and options. 10baseT Set 10Mbps operation. 100baseTX Set 100Mbps (Fast Ethernet) operation. 1000baseT Set 1000Mbps (Gigabit Ethernet) operation. For more information on configuring this device, see ifconfig(8). To view a list of media types and options supported by the card, try ifconfig <device> media. For example, ifconfig age0 media. SEE ALSO
arp(4), atphy(4), ifmedia(4), intro(4), netintro(4), pci(4), ifconfig(8) HISTORY
The age device driver first appeared in OpenBSD 4.5. It was then ported to NetBSD 5.1. AUTHORS
The age driver was written by Pyun YongHyeon for FreeBSD, ported to OpenBSD by Kevin Lo <kevlo@OpenBSD.org> then ported to NetBSD by Christoph Egger <cegger@NetBSD.org>. BSD
May 5, 2009 BSD
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