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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Delete all instances of a particular file in that month Post 302961002 by Hypesslearner on Monday 23rd of November 2015 03:56:24 AM
Old 11-23-2015
Delete all instances of a particular file in that month

Hi

I need to move one file from source path to target path .Before moving , I need to go to target path and delete the files having certain naming convention in that particular month . So at any point of time while moving i should have only one file . Is there any command that can do this if so can you please let me know .

Thanks
 

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ECACCESS-FILE-MDELETE(1p)				User Contributed Perl Documentation				 ECACCESS-FILE-MDELETE(1p)

NAME
ecaccess-file-mdelete - Delete Multiple ECaccess Files at once SYNOPSIS
ecaccess-file-mdelete -version|-help|-manual ecaccess-file-mdelete [-debug] [-force] target-ecaccess-file [...] DESCRIPTION
Allow deleting Multiple ECaccess Files at once. Each target-ecaccess-file is in the form [domain:][/user-id/]path. Please read the "Shell commands -> File Management" section of the "ecaccess" guide for more information on the ECaccess File System. ARGUMENTS
target-ecaccess-file [...] The name(s) of the ECaccess File(s) to delete. OPTIONS
-force Overrides the interactive mode and delete each file without prompting. -version Display version number and exits. -help Print a brief help message and exits. -manual Prints the manual page and exits. -debug Display the SOAP messages exchanged. EXAMPLES
ecaccess-file-mdelete -force 'home:/xyz/bin/*.bin' Delete the *.bin Files in the $HOME/bin directory of the user xyz without prompting. SEE ALSO
ecaccess-file-delete, ecaccess-file-get, ecaccess-file-mget, ecaccess-file-modtime, ecaccess-file-mput, ecaccess-file-rmdir, ecaccess-file- copy, ecaccess-file-dir, ecaccess-file-chmod, ecaccess-file-mkdir, ecaccess-file-move, ecaccess-file-put, ecaccess-file-size and ecaccess. perl v5.14.2 2012-04-16 ECACCESS-FILE-MDELETE(1p)
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