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Old 03-11-2016
Help in Removing the Old files

Hi Gurus,

we are planning to clear the old log files based on the year and i need help on this and i searched in google and i came up with the scripts but i am stuck with this.

(1) wroks fine

How many files exist in based on the extension
Code:
 find -type f | sed -e 's/.*\.//' | sort | uniq -c
   3745 txt
     45 dat
   1508 ds
   3745 rpt
      3 sh

(2) wroks fine

and i need to report how many files exist based on the year and here is the code.
Code:
 
find . -type f | xargs ls -l | grep -c "2012"
23
find . -type f | xargs ls -l | grep -c "2013"
1797
find . -type f | xargs ls -l | grep -c "2014"
3577
find . -type f | xargs ls -l | grep -c "2015"
3358
find . -type f | xargs ls -l | grep -c "2016"
323

Here the count of (1) and (2) differs and i am not sure what is missing

(3)

can i get, how many files exist based on the year for each extension files..?

(4)

here is the code which i tried and works fine with the removing old files But i need to remove the files based on the extension files(.rpt) and based on the year(20150101 - 20151231) So i can track the counts.
Code:
touch -t 201501010000.00 older
touch -t 201512310000.00 new
find myPath/folder -type f -newer older ! -newer new -ls

the above code removes the all the files based on the Year but i dont want to remove the files from the SubDirectories. need a help on that

(5) and last the .ds files want to remove the old files based on the year with the below command

orchadmin delete filename*.ds

any help and thanks


Moderator's Comments:
Mod Comment Please use code tags next time, thanks

Last edited by vbe; 03-11-2016 at 12:36 PM.. Reason: code tags
 

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lndir(1X)																 lndir(1X)

NAME
lndir - create a shadow directory of symbolic links to another directory tree SYNOPSIS
lndir fromdir [todir] DESCRIPTION
lndir makes a shadow copy todir of a directory tree fromdir, except that the shadow is not populated with real files but instead with sym- bolic links pointing at the real files in the fromdir directory tree. This is usually useful for maintaining source code for different machine architectures. You create a shadow directory containing links to the real source which you will have usually NFS mounted from a machine of a different architecture, and then recompile it. The object files will be in the shadow directory, while the source files in the shadow directory are just symlinks to the real files. This has the advantage that if you update the source, you need not propagate the change to the other architectures by hand, since all source in shadow directories are symlinks to the real thing: just cd to the shadow directory and recompile. The todir argument is optional and defaults to the current directory. The fromdir argument may be relative (e.g., ../src) and is relative to todir (not the current directory). Note that RCS, SCCS, and CVS.adm directories are not shadowed. Note also that if you add files, you must run lndir again. Deleting files is difficult because the symlinks will point to places that no longer exist. BUGS
The patch routine needs to be able to change the files. You should never run patch from a shadow directory. Use a command like the following to clear out all files before you can relink (if the fromdir has been moved, for instance): find todir -type l -print | xargs rm The following command will find all files that are not directories: find . ! -type d -print lndir(1X)
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