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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting List and Delete Files which are older than 7 days, but have white spaces in file name Post 302936176 by MadeInGermany on Monday 23rd of February 2015 12:18:34 PM
Old 02-23-2015
Probably in your case -mtime +7 is sufficient.
But it would have problems with files that are extracted from a tar or zip archive, getting a time stamp from the past (or the future).
In this case -ctime +7 is an improvement.
But a regular file backup (or virus scan) can reset atime (for convenience), and ctime changes.
The following is robust with archives and weekly full backups: \( -mtime +7 -o -mtime -0 \) -ctime +5, and run daily.
 

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libssh2_scp_send64

libssh2_scp_send64(3)						  libssh2 manual					     libssh2_scp_send64(3)

NAME

       libssh2_scp_send64 - Send a file via SCP

SYNOPSIS

       #include <libssh2.h>

       LIBSSH2_CHANNEL *
       libssh2_scp_send64(LIBSSH2_SESSION *session, const char *path, int mode,
			  libssh2_uint64_t size, time_t mtime, time_t atime);

DESCRIPTION

       session - Session instance as returned by libssh2_session_init_ex(3)

       path - Full path and filename of file to transfer to. That is the remote file name.

       mode - File access mode to create file with

       size  -	Size  of  file	being  transmitted  (Must  be  known  ahead  of  time). Note that this needs to be passed on as variable type lib-
       ssh2_uint64_t. This type is 64 bit on modern operating systems and compilers.

       mtime - mtime to assign to file being created

       atime - atime to assign to file being created (Set this and mtime to zero to instruct remote host to use current time).

       Send a file to the remote host via SCP.

RETURN VALUE

       Pointer to a newly allocated LIBSSH2_CHANNEL instance, or NULL on errors.

ERRORS

       LIBSSH2_ERROR_ALLOC -  An internal memory allocation call failed.

       LIBSSH2_ERROR_SOCKET_SEND - Unable to send data on socket.

       LIBSSH2_ERROR_SCP_PROTOCOL -

       LIBSSH2_ERROR_EAGAIN - Marked for non-blocking I/O but the call would block.

AVAILABILITY

       This function was added in libssh2 1.2.6 and is meant to replace the former libssh2_scp_send_ex(3) function.

SEE ALSO

       libssh2_channel_open_ex(3)

libssh2 1.2.6							    17 Apr 2010 					     libssh2_scp_send64(3)
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