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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Script That Can navigate to 3 differents directory & remove files under them Post 302388874 by EAGL€ on Thursday 21st of January 2010 05:31:16 PM
Old 01-21-2010
you can first find older directories than 30 days, then move them under a spesific directory you create, lets say /old_dir_tree then remove the ones you want: modifying this code:

Code:
mkdir /old_dir_tree
find . -type d -mtime +30 | grep -i 'log1 log2 log3' >> old_dir.txt
while read line;
        do
        mv $line /old_dir_tree
done<old_dir.txt

if you like you can also grep some spesific directories in all found old directories, then remove only them.

Or you can directly remove old directories with this command but i dont recommend this way:

Code:
find . -type d -mtime +30 -exec rm -r {} \;

try to modify the first code.

regards

Last edited by EAGL€; 01-21-2010 at 06:49 PM.. Reason: i slightly modifed the finding spesific directory part
 

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mkdirp(3G)																mkdirp(3G)

NAME
mkdirp(), rmdirp() - create, remove directories in a path SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
creates all the missing directories in the given path with the given mode (see chmod(2) for the values of mode.) The protection part of the mode argument is modified by the process's file creation mask (see umask(2)). rmdirp removes directories in path d. This removal starts at the end of the path and moves back toward the root as far as possible. If an error occurs, the remaining path is stored in d1. returns a 0 only if it is able to remove every directory in the path. To use these interfaces, link in the libgen library by specifying For example: RETURN VALUE
If a needed directory cannot be created, returns -1 and sets to one of the error numbers. If all the directories are created, or existed to begin with, it returns zero. EXAMPLES
WARNINGS
uses to allocate temporary space for the string. returns if a "" or "" is in the path. It returns if an attempt is made to remove the current directory. If an error occurs other than one of these two errors, returns SEE ALSO
chmod(2), mkdir(2), rmdir(2), umask(2), thread_safety(5). mkdirp(3G)
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