Delete directory conditioned Post: 302625055

Login or Register to Ask a Question and Join Our Community

Sponsored Content

Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Delete directory conditioned Post 302625055 by zaxxon on Tuesday 17th of April 2012 08:19:00 AM

Old

04-17-2012

Registered User

Assuming all directories are on the same level and you are using Linux or a Linux like OS, you can try this:

Content:

Code:

$ for a in /sdcard/backup/*; do stat --format="%n %y" $a; done
/sdcard/backup/a 2012-04-17 18:00:00.000000000 +0200
/sdcard/backup/b 2012-04-17 01:00:00.000000000 +0200
/sdcard/backup/c 2012-04-17 11:00:00.000000000 +0200
/sdcard/backup/d 2012-04-17 23:00:00.000000000 +0200

Sorted:

Code:

# for a in /sdcard/backup/*; do stat --format="%n %y" $a; done| sort -t" " -k2rn -k3rn -k4rn
/sdcard/backup/d 2012-04-17 23:00:00.000000000 +0200
/sdcard/backup/a 2012-04-17 18:00:00.000000000 +0200
/sdcard/backup/c 2012-04-17 11:00:00.000000000 +0200
/sdcard/backup/b 2012-04-17 01:00:00.000000000 +0200

Sorted content but the latest, dir "d":

Code:

for a in /sdcard/backup/*; do stat --format="%n %y" $a; done| sort -t" " -k2rn -k3rn -k4rn| awk 'NR>1 {print $1}'
/sdcard/backup/a
/sdcard/backup/c
/sdcard/backup/b

Finally deleting those 3:

Code:

# for a in /sdcard/backup/*; do stat --format="%n %y" $a; done| sort -t" " -k2rn -k3rn -k4rn| awk 'NR>1 {system("rm -r "$1)}'

Trying the steps you can dry-run before deleting too much.

This User Gave Thanks to zaxxon For This Post:

zaxxon

View Public Profile for zaxxon

Find all posts by zaxxon

10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. HP-UX

Can't delete a directory on HP-UX

Hi, I am having hard time to delete a directory: $ rm -r testoxdwdw rm: testoxdwdw non-existent $ rmdir testoxdwdw rmdir: testoxdwdw: No such file or directory $ rm -rf testoxdwdw Thanks!

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

delete a directory

Hi all, I have an empty directory "-ltr". How to delete it ? Thanks

3. Solaris

Can't delete directory

Hi, I have a problem on Solaris 10 regarding deletion of files when I try to recursively delete the directory /opt/Tivoli as root, I get the following error message: rm: Unable to remove directory Tivoli/lcf/dat/1/no-del/bin/solaris2/TME: File exists rm: Unable to remove directory...

4. Solaris

Directory cannot delete

Dear All, I have problem at T5220 server, when I enter at my server as oracle user and make directory ex. directory test then I will delete directory test with command : rm -rf, what happenned...?? that directory cannot deleted. What's wrong with my server...? Note: my server T5220 with...

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

How to delete some of the files in the directory, if the directory size limits the specified size

To find the whole size of a particular directory i use "du -sk /dirname".. but after finding the direcory's size how do i make conditions like if the size of the dir is more than 1 GB i hav to delete some of the files inside the dir

6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Cannot Delete Directory

Hello, I am trying to delete a directory but cannot. Can anyone assist? See attached. Many thanks.

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Script needed to delete to the list of files in a directory based on last created & delete them

Hi My directory structure is as below. dir1, dir2, dir3 I have the list of files to be deleted in the below path as below. /staging/retain_for_2years/Cleanup/log $ ls -lrt total 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody nobody 256 Mar 01 16:15 01-MAR-2015_SPDBS2 drwxr-xr-x 2 root ...

8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

awk file subtracted by a fix value - conditioned

Hi all... i have been trying to make this work but I have been failing for 6 hours .. I know it should be something simple that I am missing to it would be great if you can help me ... I want to subtract a fixed value (lets set 1) from any value >=1 from the whole file my file looks like ...

9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Why can't I delete this directory ?

Oracle Linux 6.4 bash shell I am trying to remove the directory named OPatch. I am trying to run rm and rmdir commands while logged in as grid user, the owner of the directory. But I keep getting "Permission denied" error. It is an empty directory. Any idea why I am getting 'Permission denied'...

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Delete directory

Can we force delete the directories despite having files in it? Because I need to delete multiple directories which has multiple files. As of now, I'm deleting the files before deleting the directory. Can't we delete the directory with files?

LEARN ABOUT REDHAT

rmf

RMF(1)                                                               [nmh-1.5]                                                              RMF(1)

NAME

       rmf - remove an nmh folder

SYNOPSIS

       rmf [+folder] [-interactive | -nointeractive] [-version] [-help]

DESCRIPTION

       Rmf removes all of the messages (files) within the specified (or default) folder, and then removes the folder (directory) itself.

       If  there  are  any  files  within the folder which are not a part of nmh, they will not be removed, and an error will be produced.  If the
       folder is given explicitly or the -nointeractive option is given, then the folder will be removed  without  confirmation.   Otherwise,  the
       user  will be asked for confirmation.  If rmf can't find the current folder, for some reason, the folder to be removed defaults to `+inbox'
       (unless overridden by user's profile entry "Inbox") with confirmation.

       If the folder being removed is a subfolder, the parent folder will become the new current folder, and rmf will produce  a  message  telling
       the user this has happened.  This provides an easy mechanism for selecting a set of messages, operating on the list, then removing the list
       and returning to the current folder from which the list was extracted.

       If rmf s used on a read-only folder, it will delete all the (private) sequences (i.e., "atr-seq-folder" entries) for this folder from  your
       context without affecting the folder itself.

       Rmf irreversibly deletes messages that don't have other links, so use it with caution.

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
       Inbox:               To find the default inbox

SEE ALSO

       rmm(1)

DEFAULTS

       `+folder' defaults to the current folder, usually with confirmation
       `-interactive' if +folder' not given, `-nointeractive' otherwise

CONTEXT

       Rmf  will  set the current folder to the parent folder if a subfolder is removed; or if the current folder is removed, it will make "inbox"
       current.  Otherwise, it doesn't change the current folder or message.

BUGS

       Although intuitively one would suspect that rmf works recursively, it does not.  Hence if you have a sub-folder within a folder,  in  order
       to rmf the parent, you must first rmf each of the children.

MH.6.8                                                             11 June 2012                                                             RMF(1)