05-15-2008
shell script to delete directories...
Hi.
I'm trying to write a script that will delete all directories found, that are not named as a "number" (year)...
here is what i mean, let's say i have within /data/exports the following directories:
/data/exports/2000
/data/exports/2001
/data/exports/2002
/data/exports/daily/2000
/data/exports/monthly/2000
/data/exports/daily/2001
/data/exports/monthly/2001
/data/exports/daily/2002
/data/exports/monthly/2002
/data/exports/blahblah/something/another/etc
and so on...
I want to write a script, that will delete all directories within /data/exports/ but not the 2000,2001 and 2002 found at that first level. The 200x found within daily and etc i want gone though.
So i thought about writing up a script that would list all directories within /data/exports/ and those that are not numbers, do a rm -R on it...but i can't seem to get it right...
any thoughts, help appreciated.
Thanks.
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PMEXP(1p) User Contributed Perl Documentation PMEXP(1p)
NAME
pmexp - show a module's exports
DESCRIPTION
Given a module name, this program identifies which symbols are automatically exported (in that package's @EXPORT), those which are
optionally exported (in that package's @EXPORT_OK), and also lists out the import groups (in that package's %EXPORT_TAGS hash).
EXAMPLES
$ pmexp Text::ParseWords
Text::ParseWords automatically exports shellwords, quotewords, nested_quotewords, and parse_line
Text::ParseWords optionally exports old_shellwords
$ pmexp Text::Wrap
Text::Wrap automatically exports wrap and fill
Text::Wrap optionally exports $columns, $break, and $huge
$ pmexp Fcntl
Fcntl automatically exports FD_CLOEXEC, F_DUPFD, F_EXLCK, F_GETFD, F_GETFL, F_GETLK, F_GETLK64, F_GETOWN, F_POSIX, F_RDLCK, F_SETFD, F_SETFL, F_SETLK, F_SETLK64, F_SETLKW, F_SETLKW64, F_SETOWN, F_SHLCK, F_UNLCK, F_WRLCK, O_ACCMODE, O_APPEND, O_ASYNC, O_BINARY, O_CREAT, O_DEFER, O_DSYNC, O_EXCL, O_EXLOCK, O_LARGEFILE, O_NDELAY, O_NOCTTY, O_NONBLOCK, O_RDONLY, O_RDWR, O_RSYNC, O_SHLOCK, O_SYNC, O_TEXT, O_TRUNC, and O_WRONLY
Fcntl optionally exports FAPPEND, FASYNC, FCREAT, FDEFER, FEXCL, FNDELAY, FNONBLOCK, FSYNC, FTRUNC, LOCK_EX, LOCK_NB, LOCK_SH, and LOCK_UN
Fcntl export tag `Fcompat' includes FAPPEND, FASYNC, FCREAT, FDEFER, FEXCL, FNDELAY, FNONBLOCK, FSYNC, and FTRUNC
Fcntl export tag `flock' includes LOCK_SH, LOCK_EX, LOCK_NB, and LOCK_UN
BUGS
The output formatting should be nicer, perhaps using "format" and "write".
SEE ALSO
pmeth(1), perlmod(1), Exporter(3).
AUTHORS and COPYRIGHTS
Copyright (C) 1999 Tom Christiansen.
Copyright (C) 2006-2008 Mark Leighton Fisher.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either: (a) the GNU General Public License as published
by the Free Software Foundation; either version 1, or (at your option) any later version, or (b) the Perl "Artistic License". (This is the
Perl 5 licensing scheme.)
Please note this is a change from the original pmtools-1.00 (still available on CPAN), as pmtools-1.00 were licensed only under the Perl
"Artistic License".
perl v5.10.1 2010-02-22 PMEXP(1p)