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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers rm command-outputting files as they are deleted? Post 302429673 by methyl on Tuesday 15th of June 2010 07:13:42 AM
Old 06-15-2010
In this approach we pipe a list to a routine which does the deletions.
It also lets you test what will be deleted first.

Code:
find "${EXP_DIR}" -type f -mtime +${RETENTION_PERIOD} -print | while read FILENAME
do
        echo "Deleting: ${FILENAME}"
        if [ -f "${FILENAME}" ]
        then
                 # Remove echo when tested
                 echo rm "${FILENAME}"
        fi
done


Note: The "if -f" allows for strange filenames which would require special action.
 

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