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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Shellscript command to remove files starting with a certain string, and older than 3 days Post 302969936 by jim mcnamara on Wednesday 30th of March 2016 10:24:21 AM
Old 03-30-2016
Quote:
older than 3 days.
The timestamp on a file is the number of seconds since Jan 1 1970. It gets turned into human readable dates using rules in your locale. So, simply subtracting three days from right now may not be what you want - calendar days, not 86400 seconds * 3. One day is 86400 seconds.

Try this: where I am it is Mar 30, 2016
so second "0" of Mar 29 is the cutoff

Code:
cd /path/to/files
touch -t 201603290000 dummy

Two options:
1. just the current directory
Code:
for f in prefix*
do
     if  [ "$f" -ot dummy ] ; then
       rm $f
     fi
done

2. whole directory tree starting from current directory

Code:
find . -type -name 'prefix*'  ! -newer dummy -exec rm {} \;

 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

sendinpaths

SENDINPATHS(8)						    InterNetNews Documentation						    SENDINPATHS(8)

NAME

       sendinpaths - Send Usenet Path: statistics via e-mail

SYNOPSIS

       sendinpaths [-cdhn] [-k keep-days] [-r report-days] [address [address ...]]

DESCRIPTION

       sendinpaths checks pathlog/path for ninpaths dump files, finds dump files generated in the past report-days days, makes sure they are valid
       by running ninpaths on each one and making sure the exit status is zero, and passes them to ninpaths to generate a cumulative report.  By
       default, that report is mailed to the e-mail addresses configured at the beginning of this script (by default, only one address is
       configured: <top1000@anthologeek.net>) in order to supply the TOP1000 project with useful statistics.  See
       <http://top1000.anthologeek.net/> for more information.

       When finished, sendinpaths deletes all dump files in pathlog/path that are older than keep-days days.

       For more information on how to set up ninpaths, see ninpaths(8).

OPTIONS

       -c  When this flag is used, the report is also e-mailed, besides the default submission addresses or those given as command-line arguments,
	   to the newsmaster's address set at configure time.

       -d  Enables debug messages.

       -h  Gives usage information.

       -k keep-days
	   After having processed dump files, sendinpaths removes those that are older than keep-days days.  The default is 0, that is to say to
	   remove all dump files.

	   Setting keep-days to another value can be useful for debugging purpose because it permits to keep a few dump files.

       -n  Don't e-mail the report; instead, just print it to standard output.	Don't delete old dump files.

       -r report-days
	   Process dump files generated during the last report-days days.  The default is 32, that is to say to process all the dump files that
	   have been generated during the last 32 days (if, of course, they have not been deleted yet by a previous run of sendinpaths according
	   to the value set by the -k flag).

       address ...
	   E-mail the report to the mentioned address or addresses, instead of the default one.  Several addresses can be used, separated by
	   whitespace.	For instance, for two adresses:

	       sendinpaths pathsurvey@top1000.org top1000@anthologeek.net

HISTORY

       sendinpaths was written by Olaf Titz <olaf@bigred.inka.de>.

       $Id: sendinpaths.pod 9384 2011-12-25 20:57:03Z iulius $

SEE ALSO

       ninpaths(8).

INN 2.5.3							    2012-06-15							    SENDINPATHS(8)
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