Don, is there a reason to not simply override IFS in read's environment? Also, I may be overly paranoid, but I use -r to defend against backslashes.
Regards,
Alister
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Because of -name . -prune not matching the current path, neither of these will work correctly.
I suggest (untested):
Some find implementations (GNU, *BSD) support a -maxdepth primary which makes it simpler to restrict traversal to a max level:
Regards,
Alister
Using read's -r option is a good idea for this application, and just setting IFS for the read is also fine.
Depending on what I'm doing, I frequently just set IFS="" at the start of a script knowing that it won't affect the invoking shell execution environment. I saved and restored it here in case someone runs this code without putting it in a subshell environment; but just setting it for read has the same effect.
I will like to write a script that delete all files that are older than 7 days in a directory and it's subdirectories. Can any one help me out witht the magic command or script?
Thanks in advance,
Odogboly98:confused: (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)
Hi all,
I want to delete log files with extension .log which are older than 30
days. How to delete those files?
Operating system -- Sun solaris 10
Your input is highly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Williams (2 Replies)
Hi All,
I am using below code to delete files older than 2 days. In case if there are no files, I should log an error saying no files to delete.
Please let me know, How I can achive this.
find /path/*.xml -mtime +2
Thanks and Regards
Nagaraja. (3 Replies)
hi i need a script to delete the files older than 2 days...
if my input is say in a folder versions
A_14122012.txt
A_15122012.txt
A_16122012.txt
A_17122012.txt
i want my output to be
A_16122012.txt
A_17122012.txt
thanks in advance
hemanth saikumar. (2 Replies)
Hi,
I have multiple files in my log folder. e.g:
a_m1.log
b_1.log
c_1.log
d_1.log
b_2.log
c_2.log
d_2.log
e_m1.log
a_m2.log
e_m2.log
I need to keep latest 10 instances of each file.
I can write multiple find commands but looking if it is possible in one line.
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
plan9-cat
CAT(1) General Commands Manual CAT(1)NAME
cat, read, nobs - catenate files
SYNOPSIS
cat [ file ... ]
read [ -m ] [ -n nline ] [ file ... ]
nobs [ file ... ]
DESCRIPTION
Cat reads each file in sequence and writes it on the standard output. Thus
cat file
prints a file and
cat file1 file2 >file3
concatenates the first two files and places the result on the third.
If no file is given, cat reads from the standard input. Output is buffered in blocks matching the input.
Read copies to standard output exactly one line from the named file, default standard input. It is useful in interactive rc(1) scripts.
The -m flag causes it to continue reading and writing multiple lines until end of file; -n causes it to read no more than nline lines.
Read always executes a single write for each line of input, which can be helpful when preparing input to programs that expect line-at-a-
time data. It never reads any more data from the input than it prints to the output.
Nobs copies the named files to standard output except that it removes all backspace characters and the characters that precede them. It is
useful to use as $PAGER with the Unix version of man(1) when run inside a win (see acme(1)) window.
SOURCE
/src/cmd/cat.c
/src/cmd/read.c
/bin/nobs
SEE ALSO cp(1)DIAGNOSTICS
Read exits with status eof on end of file or, in the -n case, if it doesn't read nlines lines.
BUGS
Beware of and which destroy input files before reading them.
CAT(1)