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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Removing folders - hierarchical stored Post 302807993 by princetd001 on Thursday 16th of May 2013 03:04:48 AM
Old 05-16-2013
but my folder structure is
Code:
 
 
2001-2100/01-12/01-30/files

If we remove dates in removal process based on 541 criteria , 1-30 , then automatcally month folder should be removed,

in removal process, if there is no month folder, then year folder must be removed automatically

Thanks,

---------- Post updated at 06:47 PM ---------- Previous update was at 06:02 PM ----------

I changed retention criteria from 541 days to 455 days , we need to remove all parent and children folders and files inside date folders from from feb 15, 2012 to older dates . but 2012 and feb month folder will be there untill we hit 455 lmit on feb 01 ,2012.

so if we calculate , we need to remove all files in 2010/01-12/01-31 folders and 2011/01-12/01-31 foders and in the year 2012, we will keep till feb 03 and 15 days of files in feb to make it 455 days


---------- Post updated at 06:57 PM ---------- Previous update was at 06:47 PM ----------

it should consider backward when counting number of dates, 2013/may, 2013/apr,2013/mar,2013/feb,2013/jan , 2012/dec, 2012/nov, 2012/oct, 2012/sept,2012/aug,2012/jul, 2012/jun, 2012/may,2012/apr,2012/mar,2012/feb , then keep files inside of folder date from 28 to 13 to retain 455 days of files. file exist only in date folders.

---------- Post updated 05-16-13 at 02:04 AM ---------- Previous update was 05-15-13 at 06:57 PM ----------

I want to add a few things to addition to above mentioned points. This might help you understand my requirement more clearly

Designing criteria:
1. its desined to hold files in hierarchical folder structure of year/months/dates/files
2. root folder contain year folders
3. Year folder contains month folders
4. month folder contains date folders
5. date folders contain data files
6. date folder contains only the data files that particular date produced.
7. remove all data files which is older than 455 days
8. remove all date folders which is older than 455 days
9. remove all months folder if they do not contain any date folders due to 455 days removal process
10.remove all year folders if they do not contain any months folders due to above process
11. script should consider from 2000 to 2100 years or dynamic
it should be removed as the following direction, for example considering today is may 15 2013,
then folder 2013/05/15 to 2012/02/29-14 should be retained and rest of the olders date, months and years folders
should be removed

Code:
 
 
YEAR MONTH DAY
2013 5 15
2013 4 30
2013 3 31
2013 2 28
2013 1 31
2012 12 31
2012 11 30
2012 10 31
2012 9 30
2012 8 31
2012 7 31
2012 6 30
2012 5 31
2012 4 30
2012 3 31
2012 2 29-14
=======================================================
2012 2 1-14
2012 1 31
2011 12 31
2011 11 30
2011 10 31
2011 9 30
2011 8 31
2011 7 31
2011 6 30
2011 5 31
2011 4 30
2011 3 31
2011 2 28
2011 1 31
2010 12 31
2010 11 30
2010 10 31
2010 9 30
2010 8 31
2010 7 31

 

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folders

folders(1)						      General Commands Manual							folders(1)

NAME

       folders - list folders and contents (only available within the message handling system, mh)

SYNOPSIS

       folders [+folder] [msg] [options]

OPTIONS

       Lists only the name of folders, with no additional information.	This is faster because the folders need not be read.  Prints a list of the
       valid options to this command.  Lists the contents of the folder-stack. No +folder argument is allowed with this option.   Re-numbers  mes-
       sages  in  the folders. Messages are re-numbered sequentially, and any gaps in the numbering are removed. The default operation is -nopack,
       which does not change the numbering in the folder.  Discards the top of the folder-stack, after setting the current folder to  that  value.
       No  +folder  argument  is  allowed  with this option. This corresponds to the popd operation in the C-shell; see csh(1). The -push and -pop
       options are mutually exclusive: the last occurrence of either one overrides any previous occurrence  of	the  other.   Pushes  the  current
       folder  onto  the folder-stack, and makes the +folder argument into the current folder. If +folder is not given, the current folder and the
       top of the folder-stack are exchanged. This corresponds to the pushd operation in the C-shell; see csh(1).  The -push switch and  the  -pop
       switch  are  mutually  exclusive:  the  last occurrence of either one overrides any previous occurrence of the other.  Lists folders recur-
       sively. Information on each folder is displayed, followed by information on any sub-folders which it contains.	Displays  only	the  total
       number  of messages and folders in your Mail directory. This option does not print any information about individual folders. It can be sup-
       pressed using the -nototal option.

       The defaults for folders are:

       +folder defaults to all msg defaults to none -nofast -noheader -nototal -nopack -norecurse

DESCRIPTION

       The folders command displays the names of your folders and the number of messages that they each contain.

       The folders command displays a list of all the folders in your Mail directory. The folders are sorted alphabetically, each on its own line.
       This is illustrated in the following example: Folder	 # of messages (  range  ); cur  msg  (other files)
	   V2.3  has	3 messages (   1-   3).
	 adrian  has   20 messages (   1-  20); cur=   2.
	  brian  has   16 messages (   1-  16).
	  chris  has   12 messages (   1-  12).
	copylog  has  242 messages (   1- 242); cur= 225.
	  inbox+ has   73 messages (   1- 127); cur= 127.
	    int  has	4 messages (   1-   4); cur=   2  (others).
	   jack  has   17 messages (   1-  17); cur=  17.

	     TOTAL= 387 messages in 8 folders.

       The  plus  sign	(+) after inbox indicates that it is the current folder.  The information about the int folder includes the term (others).
       This indicates that the folder int contains files which are not messages. These files may be either  sub-folders,  or  files  that  do  not
       belong under the MH file naming scheme.

       The folders command is identical to the effect of using the -all option to the folder command.

       If  you	use folders with the +folder argument, it will display all the subfolders within the named folder. as shown in the following exam-
       ple:

       % folders +test Folder		# of messages (  range	 );  cur   msg	 (other  files)  test+	has	      18  messages  (	 1-   18);
       (others).  test/testone has    1 message  (   1-   1).  test/testtwo has   no messages.

	      TOTAL=   19 messages in 3 folders.

       See refile(1) for more details of sub-folders.

RESTRICTIONS

       MH does not allow you to have more than 100 folders at any level in your Mail directory.

PROFILE COMPONENTS

       Path: To determine your MH directory

       Folder-Protect: To set protections when creating a new folder

       Folder-Stack: To determine the folder stack

       lsproc: Program to list the contents of a folder

FILES

       The user profile.

SEE ALSO

       csh(1), folder(1), refile(1), mhpath(1)

																	folders(1)
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