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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Shell Script to Delete 1 folder and keep 5 Post 302429526 by greendevil on Tuesday 15th of June 2010 04:21:05 PM
Old 06-15-2010
---------- Post updated 06-15-10 at 12:14 PM ---------- Previous update was 06-14-10 at 04:20 PM ----------

Actually- there is an issue with this. The way in which the backup folders are created are like the following;

Code:
2010-6-9/   2010-6-10/   2010-6-11/

The '6' in this was easily fixed by simply removing the {2} that was after it. (the only issue that results from this is what to do starting in October, but I will just create a second script when that time comes)

What to do with the '9' and then '10' . I've tried various expressions and wildcards, but cannot seem to get it to work. I have a test directory setup with directories just as above. It seems that whatever I try, the directories that echo as the 'last on the list' are 6-10 & 6-11, rather than 6-9 & 6-10.

thanks in advance.

---------- Post updated at 03:21 PM ---------- Previous update was at 12:14 PM ----------

I've actually have changed the list command to the following and it works. However, because of the digit placement of the 9 and the 10, the 9 is seen as the first digit, which messes up the sort command. This is an issue that I will need to resolve elsewhere.

My change;
Code:
ls . | grep -E '[0-9]{4}-[0-9]-[0-9]{0,}' >> BUFFER

Last edited by Scott; 06-15-2010 at 08:27 PM.. Reason: Code tags, please...
 

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libssh2_scp_send_ex

libssh2_scp_send_ex(3)						  libssh2 manual					    libssh2_scp_send_ex(3)

NAME

       libssh2_scp_send_ex - Send a file via SCP

SYNOPSIS

       #include <libssh2.h>

       LIBSSH2_CHANNEL *
       libssh2_scp_send_ex(LIBSSH2_SESSION *session, const char *path, int mode,
			   size_t size, long mtime, long atime);

DESCRIPTION

       This function has been deemed deprecated since libssh2 1.2.6. See libssh2_scp_send64(3).

       session - Session instance as returned by libssh2_session_init_ex(3)

       path - Full path and filename of file to transfer to. That is the remote file name.

       mode - File access mode to create file with

       size - Size of file being transmitted (Must be known ahead of time precisely)

       mtime - mtime to assign to file being created

       atime - atime to assign to file being created (Set this and mtime to zero to instruct remote host to use current time).

       Send a file to the remote host via SCP.

RETURN VALUE

       Pointer to a newly allocated LIBSSH2_CHANNEL instance, or NULL on errors.

ERRORS

       LIBSSH2_ERROR_ALLOC -  An internal memory allocation call failed.

       LIBSSH2_ERROR_SOCKET_SEND - Unable to send data on socket.

       LIBSSH2_ERROR_SCP_PROTOCOL -

       LIBSSH2_ERROR_EAGAIN - Marked for non-blocking I/O but the call would block.

AVAILABILITY

       This function was marked deprecated in libssh2 1.2.6 as
	libssh2_scp_send64(3) has been introduced to replace this function.

SEE ALSO

       libssh2_channel_open_ex(3)

libssh2 0.15							    1 Jun 2007						    libssh2_scp_send_ex(3)
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