Try testing your code. Setup some test directories and files. you can use the touch command to create files and change the date on the file. Create some files and directories that would fall within your delete window and some that don't. you can even create a script to generate these test files to make it easily repeatable.
Code:
mkdir tst
ls -lrt
drwxr-xr-x 2 user usrgrp 4096 Nov 14 18:02 tst
touch -t 200910121314 tst
ls -lrt
drwxr-xr-x 2 user usrgrp 4096 Oct 12 13:14 tst
touch -t 200910121314 tfile.tst
ls -lrt
drwxr-xr-x 2 user usrgrp 4096 Oct 12 13:14 tst
-rw-r--r-- 1 user usrgrp 0 Oct 12 13:14 tfile.tst
Whenever I am writing a script that removes files, I always have the script list the files the script has targeted for removal and verify those are the files I expect before I implement the rm command.
sorry guys can some please give me a hint how to achieve this in a slick oneliner?
delete files older than 5 minutes in specified directory (recursively)
peace (3 Replies)
I wrote a script to delete files which are older than "x" days, if the size of the directory is greater than "y"
#!/bin/bash
du -hs $1
while read SIZE ENTRY
do
if ;
then
find $1 -mtime +$2 -exec rm -f {} \;
echo "Files older than $2 days deleted"
else
echo "free Space available"... (4 Replies)
Hi All
I want to remove the files with name like data*.csv from the directory older than 10 days.
If there is no files exists to remove older than 10 days, It should not do anything.
Thanks
Jo (9 Replies)
I need help.
I have to delete multiple directories inside a directory that are two weeks old.
Example: Today is July 09, 2012
Folder1 > folder1 (created June 4, 2012) -- should be deleted
> folder2 (created June 2, 2012) -- should be deleted
> folder3 (created... (4 Replies)
There is another post in the forums that is similar to what I am trying to do, however, the thread is closed. So, I am creating this new one to see if someone could help. I am trying to use the code Ahamed posted, and tweak it.
With the info from the forum, I recreated the scenario the person... (8 Replies)
how do i remove sub directories of a directory and all files which are older than 7 days by a single command in AIX. pls help me.
I am using command as
#find /gpfs1/home/vinod/hpc/ -depth -type d -mtime +7 -exec rm -rf {} \;
so i want to delete all sub directories and all files from the... (1 Reply)
I have written a script which generate one logfile on every sunday and thursday
I want to move the older log files into /tmp directory befor generating new one so i used mv command like
mv usr/sbin/appl/logfile.txt usr/sbin/appl/tmp
2) But when i move this file to /tmp it will... (1 Reply)
Ive been a vocal of FIND command even before. Command below doesnt really give me the file that is older than two weeks.. Is there a script that will list me the log files that i want like for this date December 10, 2014, it shud list me the date between November 26, 2014 and below.
When i run... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: kenshinhimura
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
dbs-edit-patch
DBS-EDIT-PATCH(1) Debian Build System DBS-EDIT-PATCH(1)NAME
dbs-edit-patch - Edit a DBS patch
SYNOPSIS
dbs-edit-patch [options] patch
dbs-edit-patch -h|--help
DESCRIPTION
dbs-edit-patch is script to generate or modify patches for Debian source-packages in DBS format.
WARNING
dbs is deprecated, please switch to the `3.0 (quilt)' Debian source package format instead. See http://wiki.debian.org/Projects/Deb-
Src3.0#FAQ for a short guide how to do it.
OPTIONS -h, --help
Show summary of options.
-t dir, --tmpdir=dir
Directory for the temporary files, default is /tmp or if set $TMP.
-s dir, --sourcedir=dir
Top level directory of the debian-package source-tree, default is the present working directory.
-P dir, --sourcepatchdir=dir
Directory containing upstream patches.
-T dir, --sourcetardir=dir
Directory containing the upstream tarball.
-p level, --strip=level
Striplevel -p of patch (Option -p of diff(1)), accepted values are 0 and 1, default is 0.
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
TMP Sets the directory for the temporary files, can be overridden with -t dir.
debian/vars
dbs-edit-patch will automatically use variables defined in the optional debian/vars file.
When a file debian/vars.in exists and debian/vars either does not exist or is older than any of the following files: debian/vars.in,
debian/changelog, debian/rules or debian/control, then dbs-edit-patch will try updating the vars file by running the following command
make -f debian/rules -W debian/vars.in debian/vars
EXAMPLES
Edit the 021_debian patch of Heimdal:
~/heimdal-0.3d> dbs-edit-patch -t/tmp 021_debian
Extracting source heimdal-0.3d.tar.gz ... successful.
Applying patch 001_replay ... successful.
etc.
Copying heimdal-0.3d to heimdal-0.3d-old ... successful.
Applying patch 021_debian ... successful.
Edit files under /tmp/021_debian/heimdal-0.3d as required, then put a short description into /tmp/021_debian/patch-description if desired,
and finally execute /tmp/021_debian/dbs-update-patch to save the results.
Technical note: dbs-edit-patch extracts all patches before 021_debian into /tmp/021_debian/heimdal-0.3d, copies the result to
/tmp/021_debian/heimdal-0.3d-old, and applies the last patch 021_debian (if it exists). Also, it creates a shell script which will create
the diff between the old and new directories:
~/heimdal-0.3d> ls -la /tmp/021_debian
total 12
-rwxr-xr-x 1 bam users 112 Jan 31 13:31 dbs-update-patch*
-rw-r--r-- 1 bam users 0 Jan 31 13:31 patch-description
drwxr-xr-x 14 bam users 4096 Jan 31 13:31 heimdal-0.3d/
drwxr-xr-x 14 bam users 4096 Jan 31 13:31 heimdal-0.3d-old/
drwxr-xr-x 5 bam users 4096 Jan 31 13:31 .stampdir/
~/heimdal-0.3d> cat /tmp/021_debian/dbs-update-patch
#!/bin/sh -e
cd "/tmp/021_debian"
HOOK_DIR="/usr/src/heimdal/debian/dbs-hooks"
test -d "$HOOK_DIR" && run-parts "$HOOK_DIR" --arg update-patch-prediff
find -name "*.bak" -print0 | xargs -0 --no-run-if-empty rm
find -name "*~" -print0 | xargs -0 --no-run-if-empty rm
: > new_patch
test ! -e patch-description || cp patch-description new_patch
diff -ruN heimdal-0.3d-old heimdal-0.3d >> new_patch || test $? -eq 1
mv new_patch /usr/src/heimdal/debian/patches/021_debian
test -d "$HOOK_DIR" && run-parts "$HOOK_DIR" --arg update-patch-postdiff
SEE ALSO diff(1), dbs(7), /usr/share/doc/dbs/
AUTHOR
DBS was written by Adam Heath, modified by Ben Collins, modified and packaged for Debian by Brian May. This manpage was generated by
Andreas Metzler and modified by Robert Luberda.
Debian February 15th, 2011 DBS-EDIT-PATCH(1)