1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I want to write a script that deletes all folders and keep the last 10 recent folders. I know the following: ls -ltr will sort the folders from old to recent. ls -ltr | awk '{print $9}' will list the folder names (with a blank line at the beginning) I want to get the 10th folder from... (3 Replies)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

hi, I've a folder structure like : /home/project/LIBNAMEA/FILE1 /home/project/LIBNAMED/FILE2 /home/project/LIBNAMEC/FILE3 /home/project/LIBNAMED/FILE4 /home/project/LIBNAMEX/FILE5 (there is no relation in the letters after the project/ ) and i need to delete the files keeping... (5 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all, I amd new in UNIX programming. I have a query. I need to delete some files (like .dec files) from some folders. I have a list of folders. What will be command for it. Please help me. Thanks in Advance. (3 Replies)

4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I need to delete a folder and files in it of yesterdays and simply put this in cron. Folder name - "2010-03-2010" File name - "eprod_06_23.dmp" and "eprod_06_23.exp" Actually this folder and file is been created by a script which takes a backup of DB everyday.Thats why it creates folder and file... (3 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Dear all, i use incremental backup my data with .zip to my hard drive. what i need is i don't want the old .zip file older than 30 days. how to write a shell script automatically remove my external hard disc zip backup folders older than 30 days? Regards, (2 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Folks, I am hopeful that you may be able to help me out with writing a script that can be run nightly (as cron?) to loop through all subfolders within the "/media" directory, delete all of the files in each of them, and then copy in all of the files from the "/home//sansa" directory to each of... (6 Replies)

7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I have a requirement to delete the files and folders under a given directory. my directory structure is like this.. Data | A(Directory) |_PDF(Directory)----pdf files |_XML()Directory --xml files |--files | B(Directory) |_PDF(Directory)----pdf files |_XML()Directory --xml files ... (1 Reply)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All, I need a solution for the following scenario. I am the owner for the particular folder and I have given 777 permissions for some specific reasons. So others can able to create folders and files. But when I am done with the work, I need to delete the folders which are created by... (4 Replies)

9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I have an amount of folders and I want to delete only the empty ones. But I have more than 200 empty folders, so I would preffer do not delete one by one... I know it is possible, but I don't know how. I've tried with the size, using 'du' command, and saving the result in a file. After that, I made... (3 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello, can someone help me to create a short script that tar.gz all folders form a specific folder and the delete the folders themself (without deleting the tar.gz created files)? Moreover I'd like to add it on crontab and run it each day. For example: in /tmp I have: /tmp/test/test1... (7 Replies)