Be very very careful. It is quite normal in unix for a directory to have the value of "-mtime" much much older than the "-mtime" of the subdirectories.
To illustrate this, have a look at some of these timestamps:
Also bear in mind that the action of removing a directory changes the timestamp of the parent directory.
This sort of cleanup needs very careful planning and design.
I don't believe that the script proposed by Jim is at all safe.
Lateral thought idea:
At the time of creating each directory involved in this process, create a timestamp file in the directory. Then use "find" with the "-newer filename" switch to make decisions about that particular directory. This will also ensure that you only look at directories you want to maintain and be prepared to not delete a directory if the subdirectories are not old enough.
Test with "echo" not "rm -r" !!
Hello people,
I want to list the files & folders created/modified since a particular date say June 2006. I know I can list recursively thru the folders and use awk to extract the date column to get the desired output.
Just wanted to check whether there is an easier way to do this. Please... (2 Replies)
Hi All,
Could you please let me know if there is any one can help to create a shell script to remove some files which is the created date for them greate than 10 days (sysdate-10)
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Murad (1 Reply)
When I try to remove the file which was created by another user through super user, I am getting the "override protection 644 " meesage.
Could you please anyone help me how will I delete the file without prmpting the override protection.
I have also given the permission (rwx) to the group as... (3 Replies)
Hello,
I have "mastered" the counting of occurrences with uniq -c. :D
Now I need to keep that file neat and nice and remove only the occurrence number and the space after it.
Example:
1286456 aaa
164758 aab aaa
112345 aac aaf
should be turned into:
aaa
aab aaa
aac aaf
I... (6 Replies)
Hi
I am trying to modify a script that will remove files and folders under a set directory on my server.
I am using the following
find /home/test/HM/ -type d -exec rm -rf {} \; 2>/dev/null
This removes the files in the HM folder but it also removes the HM folder which i do not want to... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I have some folders (containing files) which gets created daily and names start with 'TT_' . I would like to remove these folders every month end.
Could you please provide me the commands and also the syntax to schedule through crontab.
Thanks,
Archana (3 Replies)
Hi All,
I need to create links between two directories.
have multiple files in a specified location.
Source Location ex: /opt/xdm/input/
Target Location ex: /opt/xdm
input file names: 1. abc_app.aus.apac.yyyymmdd.dtd
2. abcd_app.aus.apac.yyyymmdd.dtd
I need to build a code that reads... (1 Reply)
Please Help (novice to PERL and SHELL scripting)…. Need to create a script which removes all lines in $filename = "cycle_calendar_ftp_out" older than current date – a variable which will be a number of days passed to script. For Ex it will look at the end date which is the last field (4) and... (2 Replies)
My unix version is IBM AIX Version 6.1
I tried google my requirement and found the below answer,
find . -newermt “2012-06-15 08:13" ! -newermt “2012-06-15 18:20"
But newer command is not working in AIX version 6.1 unix
I have given my requirement below:
Input:
atr files:
... (1 Reply)
Hi All,
I am new in scripting and working in a project where we have RSyslog servers over CentOS v7 and more than 200 network devices are sending logs to each RSyslog servers. For each network devices individual folders create on the name of the each network devices IP addresses.The main... (7 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT CENTOS
new
NEW(1) [nmh-1.5] NEW(1)NAME
new - report on folders with new messages
fnext - set current folder to next folder with new messages
fprev - set current folder to previous folder with new messages
unseen - scan new messages in all folders with new messages
SYNOPSIS
new [sequences] [-mode mode] [-folders foldersfile] [-version] [-help]
fnext is equivalent to new -mode fnext
fprev is equivalent to new -mode fprev
unseen is equivalent to new -mode unseen
DESCRIPTION
New in its default mode produces a one-line-per-folder listing of all folders containing messages in the listed sequences or in the
sequences listed in the profile entry "Unseen-Sequence". Each line contains the folder, the number of messages in the desired sequences,
and the message lists from the .mh_sequences file. For example:
foo 11.* 40-50
bar 380. 760-772 824-828
total 391.
The `*' on foo indicates that it is the current folder. The last line shows the total number of messages in the desired sequences.
New crawls the folder hierarchy recursively to find all folders, and prints them in lexicographic order. Override this behavior by provid-
ing foldersfile containing the pre-sorted list of folders new should check, one per line.
In fnext and fprev modes, new instead changes to the next or previous matching folder, respectively.
In unseen mode, new executes scan sequences for each matching folder.
FILES
$HOME/.mh_profile The user profile
PROFILE COMPONENTS
Path: To determine the user's nmh directory
Current-Folder: To find the default current folder
Unseen-Sequence: The name of the unseen message sequence
SEE ALSO scan(1), mh-format(5)HISTORY
Based on Luke Mewburn's new (http://www.mewburn.net/luke/src/new).
MH.6.8 11 June 2012 NEW(1)