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Quote:

Originally Posted by Saidul

Hi MadeInGermany,

Thanks for your reply and it did help. I need to do a little modification if you can help me here too.

Actually whatever files i will be deleting from the above mentioned directories I need to do a provision of logging.

Code:

find /tmp/test/CC1* -type f -mtime +3 -exec rm -f {} + find /tmp/test/CC2* -type f -mtime +3 -exec rm -f {} + find /tmp/file/Int* -type f -mtime +3 -exec rm -f {} +

How do i achieve the below.?
1. Which dates files have been removed and when?
Simply, provision of logging.

First, note that putting these three commands on one line with no command separator will NOT do what you want.
Second, you don't need to invoke find three times to do this (unless you run into ARG_MAX limitations).
If the rm utility on your system supports the -v option, try:

Code:

(date +"Following files removed at %c:";find /tmp/test/CC[12]* /tmp/file/Int* -type f -mtime +3 -exec rm -fv {} + ) > rm.log

otherwise, try something like:

Code:

date + "Following files removed at %c:" > rm.log
find /tmp/test/CC[12]* /tmp/file/Int* -type f -mtime +3 -exec rm -f {} + -exec printf "%s\n" {} + >> rm.log

Last edited by Don Cragun; 01-29-2014 at 05:17 AM.. Reason: Remove extraneous space in middle of log file name.

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