Say folder archive/ contains many folder each created on a day. this folder may contain files. i want to write a script to delete all the folder inside archive/ which are 7 days older. i used the below script for the reason.
find archive -mtime +7 -type d -exec rm -r {} \;
pls suggest me if... (3 Replies)
I want to delete any file in unix file system which is older then a week.
Those files should not be unix system file..means it should be user created file.
Any clue to this ??
ASAP.
Thanks. (2 Replies)
Hi, All,
I'd like to delete files older than 1 day.
I thought the following command
find /your_directory -mtime +1-exec rm -f {} \;
will do the work, but not so, it seems like it won't delete files unless it is 2 days old or older. the files between 1 day and 2 days old does not... (7 Replies)
Hi,
I need a script to delete files that are 30 days older and also the file name should contain aa or ab or ac as substring...
Regards,
Dolly.... (3 Replies)
i have to delete files which are older than 15 days or more except the ones in the directory Current and also *.sh files
i have found the command for files 15 days or more older
find . -type f -mtime +15 -exec ls -ltr {} \;
but how to implement the logic to avoid directory Current and also... (3 Replies)
Dear Friends,
I have two queries.
1) I want to see the list of folders which were created 29 days ago.
2) I want to see the folders in which last created file is older than 29 days.
Can it be done?
Thank you in advance
Anushree (4 Replies)
Hi, I need a .ksh script that lists all the process that are currently running and older than 3 days. once the process list is available i need to mail the list and then kill those processes.
Quick response is highly appreciated :b:
Thanks in Advance!!!
Sri (3 Replies)
Hi All,
OS :- HP-UX wm5qa B.11.23 U ia64 1119805695 unlimited-user license
I need to search files older than 50 days. I've used following command in order to search desired files, I also discoverd, it's showing today's files as well. Do you have any clue with this ?
wmqa1> find .... (4 Replies)
Hi
I want to find the total space used by the files which are older than x days
find ./ -type f -mtime +x-days -name "G00*" -exec du {} \; | awk '{total+=$1}END{print "TOTAL" total}'
Total prints as 17.20 MB ( total / 1024*2 )
But actual size of it will be around 18.5 GB... (1 Reply)
Hello all,
I want to list the files older than 10 days. Currently am using
find ./ -mtime +10 -exec ls -ltr {} \;
command. But I want to execute the same command in 16 directories at a time and want an output asking to remove those file?
Please help me to design the script.
regards,
Ajay (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: 02Ajay
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shell-quote
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shell-quote - quote arguments for safe use, unmodified in a shell command
SYNOPSIS
shell-quote [switch]... arg...
DESCRIPTION
shell-quote lets you pass arbitrary strings through the shell so that they won't be changed by the shell. This lets you process commands
or files with embedded white space or shell globbing characters safely. Here are a few examples.
EXAMPLES
ssh preserving args
When running a remote command with ssh, ssh doesn't preserve the separate arguments it receives. It just joins them with spaces and
passes them to "$SHELL -c". This doesn't work as intended:
ssh host touch 'hi there' # fails
It creates 2 files, hi and there. Instead, do this:
cmd=`shell-quote touch 'hi there'`
ssh host "$cmd"
This gives you just 1 file, hi there.
process find output
It's not ordinarily possible to process an arbitrary list of files output by find with a shell script. Anything you put in $IFS to
split up the output could legitimately be in a file's name. Here's how you can do it using shell-quote:
eval set -- `find -type f -print0 | xargs -0 shell-quote --`
debug shell scripts
shell-quote is better than echo for debugging shell scripts.
debug() {
[ -z "$debug" ] || shell-quote "debug:" "$@"
}
With echo you can't tell the difference between "debug 'foo bar'" and "debug foo bar", but with shell-quote you can.
save a command for later
shell-quote can be used to build up a shell command to run later. Say you want the user to be able to give you switches for a command
you're going to run. If you don't want the switches to be re-evaluated by the shell (which is usually a good idea, else there are
things the user can't pass through), you can do something like this:
user_switches=
while [ $# != 0 ]
do
case x$1 in
x--pass-through)
[ $# -gt 1 ] || die "need an argument for $1"
user_switches="$user_switches "`shell-quote -- "$2"`
shift;;
# process other switches
esac
shift
done
# later
eval "shell-quote some-command $user_switches my args"
OPTIONS --debug
Turn debugging on.
--help
Show the usage message and die.
--version
Show the version number and exit.
AVAILABILITY
The code is licensed under the GNU GPL. Check http://www.argon.org/~roderick/ or CPAN for updated versions.
AUTHOR
Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
perl v5.16.3 2010-06-11 SHELL-QUOTE(1)