e.g. today is May 16 and May 12 is the target day (4 days ago) and my files are in folder mydir
Please test it by making a prototype directory (or making a backup of your current directories) before you execute the command.
i have a directory "ABC" with lots of old files and sub directories in it.
the issue now is i want to delete away files which are older than 15 days in "ABC" without deleting the files in the sub directories and without deleting the sub directory.
i tried using find command but it will drill down... (2 Replies)
Hello,
I have these files in my directory.
ABC123 ABC12.sls.20080809111121
ABC233 ABC12.sls.20080403123212
ABC543 ABC12.sls.20080804231212
ABC323 ABC12.sls.20080809111232
ABC765 ABC12.sls.20080809112343
ABC654 ABC12.sls.20080809113133
I want to delete only files in first... (2 Replies)
Hi all,
I want to remove the files from a folder whcih contain a specific text in it.
eg:
If i have the files like
xxxx.NAME.adadd.ajfaj.kjfha
agsg.NAME.dfshd.djsh.sdjhf
asgd.NAME2.sdhj.djhf.sjdhf
shdd.NAME2.dhse.tywe.eyio
How to remove the files which contain the pattern "NAME"... (3 Replies)
Hi all.
I have a database log file in which log data get appended to it daily. I want to do a automatic maintainence of this log by going through the log and deleting lines belonging to a certain date.
How should i do it? Please help. Thanks.
Example. To delete all lines prior to Jun... (4 Replies)
There is a system logging a huge amount of data and we need to delete some of the older logs .I mean the files that are created before one week from today. Here is a listing of files that are sitting there:
/usr/WebSphere/AppServer/logs
# ls -l
-rw-r--r-- 1 root system 3740694 May... (5 Replies)
I've got a problem how to delete files from specific directory.
I don't want do it recursively but only in specific directory.
So, command like
find /home/dirname/ -mtime +8 -type f -exec rm {} \;
is not for me because this command will remove ifs files in
/home/dirname and all... (2 Replies)
Hello,
I have several files in a specific directory.
A specific string in one file can occur in another files.
If this string is in other files. Then all the files in which this string occured should be deleted and only 1 file should remain with the string.
Example.
file1
ShortName "Blue... (2 Replies)
let say i have list of file
PermissionsDirectoriesGroupSizeDateDirectory or file
drwx------2users4096Nov 2 19:51mailv
drwxr-s---35www 32768Jan 20 22:39public_htmlt
drwx------ 2 users 4096 Nov 2 19:51 mail
drwxr-s--- 35 www 32768 Jan 20 22:39 public_html
drwxr-s--- 35 www 32768 Jan... (3 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)
he following are the files available in my directory
RSK_123_20141113_031500.txt
RSK_123_20141113_081500.txt
RSK_126_20141113_041500.txt
RSK_126_20141113_081800.txt
RSK_128_20141113_091600.txt
Here, "RSK" is file prefix and 123 is a code name and rest is just timestamp of the file when its... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: kridhick
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LEARN ABOUT OSF1
rmdir
rmdir(1) General Commands Manual rmdir(1)NAME
rmdir - Removes a directory
SYNOPSIS
rmdir [-p] [-s] directory...
STANDARDS
Interfaces documented on this reference page conform to industry standards as follows:
rmdir: XCU5.0
Refer to the standards(5) reference page for more information about industry standards and associated tags.
OPTIONS
Removes all directories in a path name. For each directory argument, the directory entry it names is removed.
If the directory argument includes more than one path name component, effects equivalent to the following command occur: rmdir -p
$(dirname directory)
That is, rmdir recursively removes each directory in the path name.
OPERANDS
The path name of an empty directory to be removed.
DESCRIPTION
The rmdir command removes a directory from the system. The directory must be empty before you can remove it, and you must have write per-
mission in its parent directory. Use the ls -al command to see if a directory is empty.
If a directory and a subdirectory of that directory are specified in a single invocation of rmdir, the subdirectory must be specified
before the parent directory so that the parent directory will be empty when rmdir tries to remove it.
RESTRICTIONS
A directory must be empty before you can remove it, and you must have write permission in its parent directory. If the -p option is used,
all directories in the path must be empty except for the directory being recursively removed.
EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned: Each directory specified by directory operand was successfully removed. An error occurred.
EXAMPLES
To empty and remove a directory, enter: rm mydir/* mydir/.* rmdir mydir
This removes the contents of mydir, then removes the empty directory. The rm command displays an error message about trying to
remove the directories . (dot) and .. (dot dot), and then rmdir removes them.
Note that rm mydir/* mydir/.* first removes files with names that do not begin with a (dot), then those with names that do begin
with a (dot). You may not realize that the directory contains file names that begin with a (dot) because the ls command does not
normally list them unless you use the -a option to see the files whose names begin with a (dot). To remove all of the directories
in the path name a/b/c, enter: rmdir -p a/b/c
Use a command like this one if directory a in the current directory is empty except that it contains a directory b and a/b is empty
except that it contains a directory c.
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
The following environment variables affect the execution of rmdir: Provides a default value for the internationalization variables that are
unset or null. If LANG is unset or null, the corresponding value from the default locale is used. If any of the internationalization vari-
ables contain an invalid setting, the utility behaves as if none of the variables had been defined. If set to a non-empty string value,
overrides the values of all the other internationalization variables. Determines the locale for the interpretation of sequences of bytes
of text data as characters (for example, single-byte as opposed to multibyte characters in arguments). Determines the locale for the for-
mat and contents of diagnostic messages written to standard error. Determines the location of message catalogues for the processing of
LC_MESSAGES.
SEE ALSO
Commands: mkdir(1), ls(1), rm(1)
Functions: rmdir(2), unlink(2), remove(3)
Standards: standards(5)rmdir(1)