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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Help - Find command to exclude sub-directories Post 302445065 by pchang on Friday 13th of August 2010 02:49:32 PM
Old 08-13-2010
Help - Find command to exclude sub-directories
Hi Forum.

I'm trying to write a script that finds and deletes files that are older than 300 days. The script will read a table that contains the following 3 columns:

1st col: “Y” means sub-directory scan; "N" means no subdirectory scan
2nd col: sub-directory location
3rd col: File prefix (* indicates all files)

For ex:
Y|/data/informatica/ming/Logs|*
N|/data/informatica/ming/ScriptsLogs|*
N|/data/sw/apps/informatica8/JBoss403/bin/|heapdump*.phd, javacore*.txt

Reason I'm using a table is that the list of directories can grow and I'm trying to avoid hard-coding anything in the script.

I have searched the forum but I haven't been successful in finding any examples on what I am trying to accomplish.

I have tried the following with the find command so far:

-prune option (but this requires hard-coding the sub-directories)
-maxdepth 1 (option does not work in my environment)
ls -l | grep -v ^d (not sure how to use this in conjuction with the find command)

In addition, the 3rd example from my table:
N|/data/sw/apps/informatica8/JBoss403/bin/|heapdump*.phd, javacore*.txt

How can I dynamically parse the 3rd field to scan for these files since there could be more files added to the 3rd field column in the future?

Any help will be greatly appreciated.
 

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