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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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NAME
Tk::Table - Scrollable 2 dimensional table of Tk widgets SYNOPSIS
use Tk::Table; $table = $parent->Table(-rows => number, -columns => number, -scrollbars => anchor, -fixedrows => number, -fixedcolumns => number, -takefocus => boolean); $widget = $table->Button(...); $old = $table->put($row,$col,$widget); $old = $table->put($row,$col,"Text"); # simple Label $widget = $table->get($row,$col); $cols = $table->totalColumns; $rows = $table->totalRows; $table->see($widget); $table->see($row,$col); ($row,$col) = $table->Posn($widget); DESCRIPTION
Tk::Table is an all-perl widget/geometry manager which allows a two dimensional table of arbitary perl/Tk widgets to be displayed. Entries in the Table are simply ordinary perl/Tk widgets. They should be created with the Table as their parent. Widgets are positioned in the table using: $table->put($row,$col,$widget) If $widget is not a reference it is treated as a string, and a Lable widget is created with the string as its text. All the widgets in each column are set to the same width - the requested width of the widest widget in the column. Likewise, all the widgets in each row are set to the same height - the requested height of the tallest widget in the column. A number of rows and/or columns can be marked as 'fixed' - and so can serve as 'headings' for the remainder the rows which are scrollable. The requested size of the table as a whole is such that the number of rows specified by -rows (default 10), and number of columns specified by -columns (default 10) can be displayed. If the Table is told it can take the keyboard focus then cursor and scroll keys scroll the displayed widgets. The Table will create and manage its own scrollbars if requested via -scrollbars. The table can be emptied using $table->clear the widgets which were in the table are destroyed. The Tk::Table widget is derived from a Tk::Frame, so inherits all its configure options. BUGS
/ Snags / Possible enhancements o Very large Tables consume a lot of X windows. o No equivalent of pack's -anchor/-pad etc. options SEE ALSO
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