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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Find files not matching multiple patterns and then delete anything older than 10 days Post 302974635 by RudiC on Wednesday 1st of June 2016 05:13:06 PM
Old 06-01-2016
I'm afraid the echo to your request is and will stay sparse, unless you supply way more detail. Inferring from what we've got now, I'd say that a_m?.log can be expanded to a_m0.log to a_m9.log, and that's it. There you've got your ten files, regardless of their age. Of course there are many ways to interpret what you've given, but (at least for me) that's not our task.

How about posting a serious specification without leeway for interpretation, showing a directory listing with at least a representative number of files, and e.g. one or two of your "multiple find commands"?
 

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strclean(8)						      System Manager's Manual						       strclean(8)

NAME
strclean - Removes outdated STREAMS error log files SYNOPSIS
/usr/sbin/strclean [-d logdir] [-a age] FLAGS
Specifies a maximum age in days for the STREAMS error log files if this not the default age of 3. The value of age must be an integer greater than or less than 3. Specifies a directory for the location of the STREAMS error log files to be removed if this is not the default directory /var/adm/streams. DESCRIPTION
The strclean command cleans the STREAMS error logger directory of log files (error.mm-dd) that contain error messages sent by the STREAMS log driver (strlog). If no other directory is specified (the logdir argument), the command removes error log files in the /var/adm/streams directory. If no other age is specified (the age argument), the command removes error log files that have not been modified in 3 days. The strclean command is executed by the cron daemon on a periodic basis. EXAMPLES
To remove the day-old error log files from a directory called /tmp/streams, enter: strclean -d /tmp/streams -a 1 FILES
One or more error log file or files on which strclean operates. The mm.dd in the filename indicates the month and day of the messages con- tained in the file. RELATED INFORMATION
Commands: strerr(8), cron(8). Interfaces: strlog(7). delim off strclean(8)
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