04-20-2009
How to tar, compress and remove files older than two days
Hi,
I'm Eddy from Belgium and I've the following problem.
I try to write a ksh script in AIX to tar, compress and remove the original *.wav files from the directory belgacom_sf_messages older than two days with the following commands.
The problem is that I do not find a good combination to handle this.
#!/bin/ksh
#
MAIN_DIR=/tmp/belgacom_sf_messages
integer set COMPRESSDAYS=3
integer set DELETEDAYS=3
tar -cvf - ${MAIN_DIR} 2>/tmp/file.tar
#
find ${MAIN_DIR} ! -name \*.wav -mtime -3 -exec gzip {} \;
find ${MAIN_DIR} -name \*.gz -mtime -3 -exec rm {} \;
#
##########Tested and ok##########
#tar -cvf - ${MAIN_DIR} 2> /tmp/Eddy.tar |gzip -c1 > file.tar.Z
Can somebody advises me how to do this.
Thanks in advance.
Best regards.
Eddy.
Last edited by edr; 04-22-2009 at 05:00 AM..
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NAME
dh_compress - compress files and fix symlinks in package build directories
SYNOPSIS
dh_compress [debhelperoptions] [-Xitem] [-A] [file...]
DESCRIPTION
dh_compress is a debhelper program that is responsible for compressing the files in package build directories, and makes sure that any
symlinks that pointed to the files before they were compressed are updated to point to the new files.
By default, dh_compress compresses files that Debian policy mandates should be compressed, namely all files in usr/share/info,
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FILES
debian/package.compress
These files are deprecated.
If this file exists, the default files are not compressed. Instead, the file is ran as a shell script, and all filenames that the shell
script outputs will be compressed. The shell script will be run from inside the package build directory. Note though that using -X is a
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OPTIONS
-Xitem, --exclude=item
Exclude files that contain item anywhere in their filename from being compressed. For example, -X.tiff will exclude TIFF files from
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-A, --all
Compress all files specified by command line parameters in ALL packages acted on.
file ...
Add these files to the list of files to compress.
CONFORMS TO
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SEE ALSO
debhelper(7)
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AUTHOR
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