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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting To nullify multiple log files older than X days. Post 302991158 by RudiC on Tuesday 7th of February 2017 08:49:03 AM
Old 02-07-2017
How about ORing in a second -name test using the -o operator (incl. parentheses)? Or, extend the ".log" pattern like [lt][ox][gt] (with the danger of false positives)?
 

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