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06-23-2017

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Delete files older than 1week(dates need to be calculate based on file name)

Objective: We have multiple files in a folder and we want to delete all files except for last 1 week files.

Note: We are copying these files from original location to this temporary location. So time shown for these files are time when we copied to this location. Not that when file was created.

Files are:

Code:

-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root   3730573 Jun 23 14:06 tps-20170516192956200-10248.tps
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root  34803468 Jun 23 14:06 tps-20170516195930440-2586.tps
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root  33504240 Jun 23 14:06 tps-20170517231247323-2586.tps
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root  33247339 Jun 23 14:07 tps-20170519030152674-2586.tps
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root  33283294 Jun 23 14:07 tps-20170519030525811-2586.tps
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root  33211241 Jun 23 14:07 tps-20170520120924116-26089.tps
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root  35135540 Jun 23 14:07 tps-20170521203131446-45475.tps
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root  27263002 Jun 23 14:07 tps-20170522171753527-45475.tps
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root  34145738 Jun 23 14:07 tps-20170522180142517-45475.tps
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root  33248824 Jun 23 14:08 tps-20170523210831497-45475.tps
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root  33497660 Jun 23 14:08 tps-20170523223946192-45475.tps
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root  33140593 Jun 23 14:08 tps-20170524004838503-45475.tps
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root  33700101 Jun 23 14:08 tps-20170524183206292-45475.tps
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root  33285239 Jun 23 14:08 tps-20170525004909816-45475.tps
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root  18466717 Jun 23 14:09 tps-20170525171625377-45475.tps

The date of the file can be found in file name itself.

tps-20170525171625377-45475.tps = 2017-05-25

Query: In above example we have files from 16-05-2017 to 25-05-2017. How can keep files only for last seven days i.e. 19th to 25th may and remove rest of them.

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Ankit

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Name
uuclean - uucp spool directory clean-up

Syntax
uuclean -p[pre] [ options ... ]

Description
The command scans the spool directory for files with the specified prefix and deletes all those which are older than the specified number
of hours.

The -ppre argument causes the command to scan for files with pre as the file prefix. You can specify up to 10 arguments. A without any
pre following causes all files older than the specified time to be deleted. You must specify at least one argument.

Options
-ntime Delete all files whose age is more than time, in hours, (default is 72 hours) and that have the specified pre as their file
prefix.

-m Send mail to the owner of the file when it is deleted.

-ssystem Delete files in all directories that are subdirectories of the per system spool directory that exists for system. If ALL is
specified, then all system directories are processed. ALL is the default.

-ddirectory Delete files that reside in the named directory. The default directory is The option over rides the option.

The command typically starts the program. In earlier versions, a deleted work file (C.file) would result in mail to the owner of the work
file, regardless of the option. Now, notification of deleted work files is sent to the user ID "uucp". If the option is used, mail is
also sent to the owner.

Examples
Here are some example command lines:
# uuclean -pLTMP. -pLOG. -n4 -d/usr/spool/uucp
# uuclean -d/usr/spool/uucp/.XQTDIR -p -n
# uuclean -smarkie -p -n84
The third example deletes all files for the system that are older than 84 hours.

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