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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Deleting the files between particular dates Post 302916473 by rbatte1 on Wednesday 10th of September 2014 07:39:49 AM
Old 09-10-2014
If you have specific dates rather than having to calculate the number of days to look back, you can use touch to create files with the timestamps at the extremes that you want to work with and then use a find command to reference them.

For example, if you want to delete files between 5th April 2013 00:00 and 9th June 2014 23:59, then you can do this:-
Code:
touch -mt 201304050000 /tmp/start_marker
touch -mt 201406100000 /tmp/end_marker

find . -newer /tmp/start_marker ! -newer /tmp/end_marker -exec rm {} +

.... or if it doesn't understand the +, replace it with \;. The difference is that that \; will cause find to fire up the command given for each individual file and that takes more time than + which runs the command once for as many files as it can in one go. This really can make a difference when you you have many hundreds of files.

I've coded the end_marker file to be actually dated as 10th June at 00:00 because we want files that are older than that time.


I hope that this helps,
Robin
 

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dh_movefiles

DH_MOVEFILES(1) 						     Debhelper							   DH_MOVEFILES(1)

NAME

       dh_movefiles - move files out of debian/tmp into subpackages

SYNOPSIS

       dh_movefiles [debhelperoptions] [--sourcedir=dir] [-Xitem] [file...]

DESCRIPTION

       dh_movefiles is a debhelper program that is responsible for moving files out of debian/tmp or some other directory and into other package
       build directories. This may be useful if your package has a Makefile that installs everything into debian/tmp, and you need to break that
       up into subpackages.

       Note: dh_install is a much better program, and you are recommended to use it instead of dh_movefiles.

FILES

       debian/package.files
	   Lists the files to be moved into a package, separated by whitespace. The filenames listed should be relative to debian/tmp/. You can
	   also list directory names, and the whole directory will be moved.

OPTIONS

       --sourcedir=dir
	   Instead of moving files out of debian/tmp (the default), this option makes it move files out of some other directory. Since the entire
	   contents of the sourcedir is moved, specifying something like --sourcedir=/ is very unsafe, so to prevent mistakes, the sourcedir must
	   be a relative filename; it cannot begin with a `/'.

       -Xitem, --exclude=item
	   Exclude files that contain item anywhere in their filename from being installed.

       file ...
	   Lists files to move. The filenames listed should be relative to debian/tmp/. You can also list directory names, and the whole directory
	   will be moved. It is an error to list files here unless you use -p, -i, or -a to tell dh_movefiles which subpackage to put them in.

NOTES

       Note that files are always moved out of debian/tmp by default (even if you have instructed debhelper to use a compatibility level higher
       than one, which does not otherwise use debian/tmp for anything at all). The idea behind this is that the package that is being built can be
       told to install into debian/tmp, and then files can be moved by dh_movefiles from that directory. Any files or directories that remain are
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SEE ALSO

       debhelper(7)

       This program is a part of debhelper.

AUTHOR

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