Finding a list of old files is usually done with something like:
This would list all files in or under the current directory that have not been modified in the last year.
You could move all files older than a year like so:
This would not preserve the directory structure.
You could do something like this to preserve the directory structure:
check that /tmp/moveoldfiles.sh will do what you intended and then run it.
I am looking for some advice. I have some files on a Unix server, which contain symbolic links. I need to copy these over to a nfts environment, but wish to keep the symbolic links intact. Any ideas? (7 Replies)
Hello Gurus,
I have a requirement where I have to remove users that have not logged into our unix box last 90 days. I want to script this one and remove the users automatically now and then. Has any one ever done this before, if so please give me some sample code. I am not a good unix... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I want to archive below directory
ex: /home/oracle/dd0
sub-directories in dd0
/home/oracle/dd0/backup/backup1
/home/oracle/dd0/backup/backup2
/home/oracle/dd0/dmp
....etc
I want a command(tar) which will let me archive the above directory excluding *.dmp(dump files), *.log(log... (1 Reply)
Hi friends
I work on UNIX Operating system and I have many servers.
ADM server make archiving for special data every day inside XYZ directory at specific time,the next time SPERADM server will take that archiving data to put them in same directory (inside SPERADM server).
Now archiving... (2 Replies)
Hi all. I am trying to set up archiving of directories, such that I keep every directory made in the past week, but just one directory per week beyond that. Using the find command, I can easily delete everything more than one week old, but can not figure out how to save one.
Each directory... (4 Replies)
Hi,
Suppose I have 2 files of yesterday's. And today I have received 3 files.
Before processing anything I want to archieve the 2 files of yesterday's into a different folder.
How can this be done?
Regards,
Sunitha (1 Reply)
Hi Guys
i am experiencing this problem when trying to archive a file in perl. the files name is created dynamically. (my $date = `date +"%d%m%Y"`;)
`tar czf /opt/memex/backups/Complete$date.tar.gz /opt/memex/backups/Complete$date`;
error message:
tar: Cowardly refusing to create an empty... (4 Replies)
Hi,
I am trying to develop a KSH script, to perform the following functions:
1. ZIP the previous day backup to ZIP Directory, while removing any ZIP file older than a week.
2. Perform the backup.
3. Send a confirmation mail with subject content of the size of file.
Please let me... (0 Replies)
Hi ,
Might be the very basic question and most frequent one also..
wanted to archive the logs/files older than one month or older than 30 days to some particular location.
File/log format is like below
ABCD_EF_GHIJ_Defaulter_Report_(06-Jun-2014_11-50-20_AM)
Source : /test/ABC... (3 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT PLAN9
ar
AR(1) General Commands Manual AR(1)NAME
ar - archive and library maintainer
SYNOPSIS
ar key [ posname ] afile [ file ... ]
DESCRIPTION
Ar maintains groups of files combined into a single archive file, afile. The main use of ar is to create and update library files for the
loaders 2l(1), etc. It can be used, though, for any similar purpose.
Key is one character from the set drqtpmx, optionally concatenated with one or more of vuaibclo. The files are constituents of the archive
afile. The meanings of the key characters are:
d Delete files from the archive file.
r Replace files in the archive file, or add them if missing. Optional modifiers are
u Replace only files with modified dates later than that of the archive.
a Place new files after posname in the archive rather than at the end.
b or i Place new files before posname in the archive.
q Quick. Append files to the end of the archive without checking for duplicates. Avoids quadratic behavior in
t List a table of contents of the archive. If names are given, only those files are listed.
p Print the named files in the archive.
m Move the named files to the end or elsewhere, specified as with
o Preserve the access and modification times of files extracted with the x command.
x Extract the named files. If no names are given, all files in the archive are extracted. In neither case does x alter the archive
file.
v Verbose. Give a file-by-file description of the making of a new archive file from the old archive and the constituent files. With
p, precede each file with a name. With t, give a long listing of all information about the files, somewhat like a listing by ls(1),
showing
mode uid/gid size date name
c Create. Normally ar will create a new archive when afile does not exist, and give a warning. Option c discards any old contents
and suppresses the warning.
l Local. Normally ar places its temporary files in the directory /tmp. This option causes them to be placed in the local directory.
When a d, r, or m key is specified and all members of the archive are valid object files for the same architecture, ar inserts a table of
contents, required by the loaders, at the front of the library. The table of contents is rebuilt whenever the archive is modified, except
when the q key is specified or when the table of contents is explicitly moved or deleted.
EXAMPLE
ar cr lib.a *.o
Replace the contents of library with the object files in the current directory.
FILES
/tmp/v*
temporaries
SOURCE
/sys/src/cmd/ar.c
SEE ALSO 2l(1), ar(6)BUGS
If the same file is mentioned twice in an argument list, it may be put in the archive twice.
This command predates Plan 9 and makes some invalid assumptions, for instance that user id's are numeric.
AR(1)