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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting UNIX script for cleanup Post 302953625 by Don Cragun on Monday 31st of August 2015 02:25:31 AM
Old 08-31-2015
OK. Now I'm totally confused.

You have a file named /var/temp/appkeep that contains a list of directories to be deleted (and the age of files in those directories does not matter) when your script is run. That can be done by:
Code:
[ -s /var/temp/appkeep ] && rm -rf $(cat /var/temp/appkeep)
> /var/temp/appkeep

And then you have to write another script that will read e-mail sent to you saying that other directories should be added to the current list held in var/temp/appkeep. Writing a script to read a mailbox, understand the subject lines and text of messages in that mailbox, and to reliably determine from the contents of that mailbox what directory names to add to the apkeep file to be sure that those directories will not be kept during the next run of the 1st script above will be a significant research project well beyond the basic programming steps usually discussed in a forum like this.

I don't see how any of this relates to anything you described in post #1 in this thread???
 

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Apache::TestConfig(3)					User Contributed Perl Documentation				     Apache::TestConfig(3)

NAME
Apache::TestConfig -- Test Configuration setup module SYNOPSIS
use Apache::TestConfig; my $cfg = Apache::TestConfig->new(%args) my $fh = $cfg->genfile($file); $cfg->writefile($file, $content); $cfg->gendir($dir); ... DESCRIPTION
"Apache::TestConfig" is used in creating the "Apache::Test" configuration files. FUNCTIONS
genwarning() my $warn = $cfg->genwarning($filename) genwarning() returns a warning string as a comment, saying that the file was autogenerated and that it's not a good idea to modify this file. After the warning a perl trace of calls to this this function is appended. This trace is useful for finding what code has created the file. genwarning() automatically recognizes the comment type based on the file extension. If the extension is not recognized, the default "#" style is used. Currently it support "<!-- -->", "/* ... */" and "#" styles. genfile() my $fh = $cfg->genfile($file); genfile() creates a new file $file for writing and returns a file handle. A comment with a warning and calls trace is added to the top of this file. See genwarning() for more info about this comment. If parent directories of $file don't exist they will be automagically created. The file $file and any created parent directories (if found empty) will be automatically removed on cleanup. writefile() $cfg->writefile($file, $content, [$nowarning]); writefile() creates a new file $file with the content of $content. A comment with a warning and calls trace is added to the top of this file unless $nowarnings is passed and set to a true value. See genwarning() for more info about this comment. If parent directories of $file don't exist they will be automagically created. The file $file and any created parent directories (if found empty) will be automatically removed on cleanup. write_perlscript() $cfg->write_perlscript($filename, @lines); Similar to writefile() but creates an executable Perl script with correctly set shebang line. gendir() $cfg->gendir($dir); gendir() creates a new directory $dir. If parent directories of $dir don't exist they will be automagically created. The directory $dir and any created parent directories will be automatically removed on cleanup if found empty. AUTHOR
SEE ALSO
perl(1), Apache::Test(3) perl v5.8.0 2002-09-10 Apache::TestConfig(3)
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