I shall only guide you on one way of achieving the same..you can use this logic if you find it better than ones given by others here...
1>You can get the epoch seconds of the time of creation of the file using stat command
2>Compare this with the epoch seconds of two days behind..if less than the epoch seconds of 2 days behind...go ahead and delete...
To calculate two days behind epoch seconds
Hi Folks,
I have a log file that keeps the information pn the date and time a specific transaction is firedup. I found that the log file keeps growing and I intend to limit the entry to the log file to 30 days.
Log file name is transaction.log, here is the content:
120802_23:47:37 ... (3 Replies)
I want to add these no. these are in the format of
days:hours:minutes:sec
I want result in this format only
0:00:04:59
0:00:00:12
0:00:00:28
0:00:00:03
0:01:29:35
0:00:00:19
0:01:05:21
Is any body ca help me?????
To get This..
Thanks
Nishant (1 Reply)
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