Assuming the files in a certain day folder are all created the same day,
a simple find on the file dates should work:
If I use this command, does this remove the files in a given directory or it recursively go in each parent-child-grandchild diretory and delete the files and remove the directories those are empty?
As -type f - stands for finding only files , will it not consider directories as well?
-exec rm - stands for removing only files , but not empty folders.
how do we do it dynamically go in each folders recursively and remove files that are older than 455 days and remove the empty folders?
All
Please help me to remove old files. For example
/usr/exp/ - inside this
Apr 02 - dir02
Apr 03 - dir03
Apr 04 - dir04
Apr 05 - dir05
Apr 06 - dir06
Apr 07 - dir07
Apr 03 - file03
I want to delete all the folders 2 days before created.Not the fil03 even though it is 2 days old. ... (1 Reply)
Hey there!
I try to use 'find' to remove empty directories like this:
find . -depth -type d -empty -exec rm -rf {} ';'
It works just fine, but there are some directories i want to exclude.
So i tried to do sth like this:
find . -depth -type d -empty -exec grep -v "not this one please" -exec... (5 Replies)
Hi,
I am trying to use either awk or sed to drop the first two folders in a path. So if I had path /folder1/folder2/folder3/folder4.... I need to drop folder1&2, so the new path would be /folder3/folder4...
If folder1 and folder2 were the same all the time, this would be easy. But... (4 Replies)
Hi,
I want to write a command to remove all the files from a folder and inner child folder without removing the child folders of parent folder.
like I have folder like this...
folder a/b/c
file a/test.sql
file a/b/test2.txt
file a/b/c/temp.jpeg
now I want to remove all... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I want to write a command to remove all the files from a folder and inner child folder without removing the child folders of parent folder.
like I have folder like this...
Code:
folder a/b/c
file a/test.sql
file a/b/test2.txt
file a/b/c/temp.jpeg
now I want to remove... (5 Replies)
Hello,
I have a folder that contains all my music. Recently, I started using a different media player, and I let it manage my music folder. It has sorted all my music neatly in folders by artist and album. However, all the old folders that the songs used to be in are still there, yet they are... (2 Replies)
I use an extremely simple TAR function for files at work and I have a question about cleaning them up.
My command is TAR -cvf ExampleTarName.tar then the folder I wish to TAR.
When my TAR finishes and I double click it to check it unarchived beautifully (I don't do this with every file, duh)... (5 Replies)
Hi,
I need a way to remove all folders that contain "Quick" in their names in a directory called /var/tmp...
However all attemps I have tried won't work. :wall:
I so far tried
find /var/tmp -type d -name "Quick" | sudo xargs rm -rf
find . -name "Quicklook" -exec rm -rf {} \;
find .... (2 Replies)
Hello.
I'm writing a script where every file you create will generate a md5sum and store it into a text file.
Say I create 2 files, it'll look like this in the text file:
d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e /helloworld/saystheman
d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e /helloworld/test
I... (3 Replies)
HI guys here's hoping some on pout the can help
I have a large library of epub and mobi file creates some what by calibre.
Output of tree listing below
I would like to recursively rename the directories removing the brackets and numbers
I have been scratching my head over... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: dunryc
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escape
escape(1) Mail Avenger 0.8.3 escape(1)NAME
escape - escape shell special characters in a string
SYNOPSIS
escape string
DESCRIPTION
escape prepends a "" character to all shell special characters in string, making it safe to compose a shell command with the result.
EXAMPLES
The following is a contrived example showing how one can unintentionally end up executing the contents of a string:
$ var='; echo gotcha!'
$ eval echo hi $var
hi
gotcha!
$
Using escape, one can avoid executing the contents of $var:
$ eval echo hi `escape "$var"`
hi ; echo gotcha!
$
A less contrived example is passing arguments to Mail Avenger bodytest commands containing possibly unsafe environment variables. For
example, you might write a hypothetical reject_bcc script to reject mail not explicitly addressed to the recipient:
#!/bin/sh
formail -x to -x cc -x resent-to -x resent-cc
| fgrep "$1" > /dev/null
&& exit 0
echo "<$1>.. address does not accept blind carbon copies"
exit 100
To invoke this script, passing it the recipient address as an argument, you would need to put the following in your Mail Avenger rcpt
script:
bodytest reject_bcc `escape "$RECIPIENT"`
SEE ALSO avenger(1),
The Mail Avenger home page: <http://www.mailavenger.org/>.
BUGS
escape is designed for the Bourne shell, which is what Mail Avenger scripts use. escape might or might not work with other shells.
AUTHOR
David Mazieres
Mail Avenger 0.8.3 2012-04-05 escape(1)