My apache logs are saved in the following format (using rotatelogs):
Oct 8 01:59 access_log.1002412800
Oct 9 01:55 access_log.1002499200
Oct 10 01:58 access_log.1002585600
Oct 11 01:56 access_log.1002672000
Oct 12 01:59 access_log.1002758400
I would like to run a cronjob once a week to... (2 Replies)
Hi All,
I am wondering whether is there a way to remove files according to date. For example, I have 500 files between Jan - April, and I want to remove files created only on March.
Is there any way to do this?
Thanks in advanced.
rgds,
Ronny (2 Replies)
we have files created by Aug12 and Feb 23 and Mar10
i want to delete the files which has created on Mar 10
Kindly let me know the script to delete the files which is created by Mar 10 (4 Replies)
Hi Guys,
I need help on deleting particular date files in a directory. I have to delete thousands of files with respect to particular date. Could anyone help on this to delete particular date files at a time?
Thanks in Advance (2 Replies)
Guys, I am wondering how to remove files for a specific date in a directory?
for instance when I do ls -l , i see many files. And i want to delete files for date May 15:
58252015 May 10 03:45 my_05102012.log
58252015 May 15 06:45 my_05152012.log
Thanks (8 Replies)
To delete log files content older than 30 days and append the lastest date log file date in the respective logs
I want to write a shell script that deletes all log files content older than 30 days and append the lastest log file date in the respective logs
This is my script
cd... (2 Replies)
dear all,
i m a newbie and i want to delete all files of a particular date,how can i do this? your help appreciated,thanks in advance.
OS:RHEL 6 (5 Replies)
Hi,
I need a command for deleting all the compress files *.Z that are older than the current date - 5 days. Basically I have a directory where daily I meet some back up files and I want to remove automatically the ones 5 days (or more) older than the current date. How can I write a 'rm' command... (1 Reply)
I'm quite new to Unix but I want to delete some old backup files stored in a directory.
the backups are stored on a network storage device located at /mnt/terastation12/backup. I want to delete everything upto one month ago. would the following command in Unix Sun do that?
find... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: dbajtr
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LEARN ABOUT BSD
xargs
XARGS(1) General Commands Manual XARGS(1)NAME
xargs - construct argument list(s) and execute utility
SYNOPSIS
xargs [ -t ][[ -x ] -n number ][ -s size ][ utility [ arguments... ]]
DESCRIPTION
The xargs utility reads space, tab, newline and end-of-file delimited arguments from the standard input and executes the specified utility
with them as arguments.
The utility and any arguments specified on the command line are given to the utility upon each invocation, followed by some number of the
arguments read from standard input. The utility is repeatedly executed until standard input is exhausted.
Spaces, tabs and newlines may be embedded in arguments using single (`` ' '') or double (``"'') quotes or backslashes (``''). Single
quotes escape all non-single quote characters, excluding newlines, up to the matching single quote. Double quotes escape all non-double
quote characters, excluding newlines, up to the matching double quote. Any single character, including newlines, may be escaped by a back-
slash.
The options are as follows:
-n number Set the maximum number of arguments taken from standard input for each invocation of the utility. An invocation of utility will
use less than number standard input arguments if the number of bytes accumulated (see the s option) exceeds the specified size or
there are fewer than number arguments remaining for the last invocation of utility. The current default value for number is
5000.
-s size Set the maximum number of bytes for the command line length provided to utility. The sum of the length of the utility name and
the arguments passed to utility (including /dev/null terminators) will be less than or equal to this number. The current default
value for size is ARG_MAX - 2048.
-t Echo the command to be executed to standard error immediately before it is executed.
-x Force xargs to terminate immediately if a command line containing number arguments will not fit in the specified (or default)
command line length.
If no utility is specified, echo(1) is used.
Undefined behavior may occur if utility reads from the standard input.
The xargs utility exits immediately (without processing any further input) if a command line cannot be assembled, utility cannot be
invoked, an invocation of the utility is terminated by a signal or an invocation of the utility exits with a value of 255.
The xargs utility exits with a value of 0 if no error occurs. If utility cannot be invoked, xargs exits with a value of 127. If any other
error occurs, xargs exits with a value of 1.
SEE ALSO echo(1), find(1)STANDARDS
The xargs utility is expected to be IEEE Std 1003.2("POSIX") compliant.
June 6, 1993 XARGS(1)