Half a million files can take their time. Add a -print in front of your -exec to see if it's stuck.
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You should also use the -mtime option instead of -atime since -atime timestamp will be updated even if you had just a reading action on the file. -mtime resembles to the date you see when you do a ls -l.
To express a "starting" and "ending" time you can also combine 2 -mtime like:
which should delete all files older than 1 year but not older than 2 years ie. the year before the last year.
When experimenting with this, leave out the -exec rm so you do not accidentally delete things if something is not according to your needs.
Last edited by zaxxon; 06-25-2010 at 06:15 AM..
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Hi,
I am trying to write a script that will move all the files from source directory structure(multiple levels might exist) to destination directory structure. If a sub folder is source doesnot exist in destination then I have to skip and goto next level. I also need to delete the files in... (4 Replies)
i have a text file as.
/database/sp/NTR_Update_Imsi_List.sql
/database/sp/NTR_Update_Imsi_Range_List.sql
/database/sp/NTR_Vlr_Upload.sql
/database/tables/StatsTables.sql
/mib/ntr.mib
/mib/ntr.v2.mib
/scripts/operations/ntr/IMSITracer.ph
/scripts/operations/ntr/IMSITracer.pl ... (3 Replies)
I'm using this now:
find /some/path/with/sourcefiles -type f -size -7M -exec /bin/cp -uv {} /some/path/ \;
but it doesn't preserve the directory structure, also I've tried it with
find /some/path/with/sourcefiles -type f -size -7M -exec /usr/bin/rsync -auv {} /some/path/ \;
but that doesn't... (9 Replies)
Hello Friends,
When i type du -sh *.jar | sort -n under a library directory i get a result similar below output:
1M 1.jar
2.4M 2.jar
4.5M 3.jar
. .
. .
. .
1K (n-2).jar
15K (n-1).jar
77.7K n.jar
I want to sum up the size... (1 Reply)
Hi ,
I am trying to write something to find the size of particular type of files in a directory & it's subdirectory and sum the size .. These types of file are found at directory level or its subdirectories level ..
#!/bin/ksh
FNAME='.pdf'
S_PATH=/abc/def/xyz
find $S_PATH -exec ls -lad... (4 Replies)
Hello All,
I am trying to write a script to:-
1. Traverse entire file system, look for directories which has .git directory in it
2. Rename the immediate parent directory to <orignal_name.git>
3. Traverse new file structure and look for all directories with <original_name>.git
4. cd to... (2 Replies)
Hi,
Can someone help me to get the complete files size (sum) over a perod time (1 day,2days)in a directory.
eg:
Directory :ABC
I have a1,a2,a3 files are created in last 24 hours so I need to get the some of all these files.
I am using the below find command but its giving me the... (1 Reply)
To find the whole size of a particular directory i use "du -sk /dirname".. but after finding the direcory's size how do i make conditions like if the size of the dir is more than 1 GB i hav to delete some of the files inside the dir (0 Replies)
Hello Team,
We would like to backup a lot of files inside of a structure of directories, four, five or more levels in some Ubuntu, Mac and Solaris systems.
For instance:
/home/chuck/sales/virgin/rent-quote.pdf
/home/chuck/sales/marriott/vacation-quote.pdf... (2 Replies)
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lndir
lndir(1X)lndir(1X)NAME
lndir - create a shadow directory of symbolic links to another directory tree
SYNOPSIS
lndir fromdir [todir]
DESCRIPTION
lndir makes a shadow copy todir of a directory tree fromdir, except that the shadow is not populated with real files but instead with sym-
bolic links pointing at the real files in the fromdir directory tree. This is usually useful for maintaining source code for different
machine architectures. You create a shadow directory containing links to the real source which you will have usually NFS mounted from a
machine of a different architecture, and then recompile it. The object files will be in the shadow directory, while the source files in
the shadow directory are just symlinks to the real files.
This has the advantage that if you update the source, you need not propagate the change to the other architectures by hand, since all
source in shadow directories are symlinks to the real thing: just cd to the shadow directory and recompile.
The todir argument is optional and defaults to the current directory. The fromdir argument may be relative (e.g., ../src) and is relative
to todir (not the current directory).
Note that RCS, SCCS, and CVS.adm directories are not shadowed.
Note also that if you add files, you must run lndir again. Deleting files is difficult because the symlinks will point to places that no
longer exist.
BUGS
The patch routine needs to be able to change the files. You should never run patch from a shadow directory.
Use a command like the following to clear out all files before you can relink (if the fromdir has been moved, for instance):
find todir -type l -print | xargs rm
The following command will find all files that are not directories:
find . ! -type d -print
lndir(1X)