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Operating Systems Linux Red Hat Delete files older than 1week(dates need to be calculate based on file name) Post 302999614 by RudiC on Friday 23rd of June 2017 09:26:37 AM

06-23-2017

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For a zero'th approximation, try

Code:

for FN in *.tps; do DAT=${FN#*-}; DAT=${DAT:0:8}; touch -d${DAT} $FN; done
touch -d$((DAT - 7)) REF
find . -newer REF
./tps-20170523210831497-45475.tps
./tps-20170519030152674-2586.tps
./tps-20170520120924116-26089.tps
./tps-20170521203131446-45475.tps
./tps-20170525004909816-45475.tps
./tps-20170524183206292-45475.tps
./tps-20170523223946192-45475.tps
./tps-20170522171753527-45475.tps
./tps-20170525171625377-45475.tps
./tps-20170524004838503-45475.tps
./tps-20170522180142517-45475.tps
./tps-20170519030525811-2586.tps

Please not that this is just a quick and dirty idea on how to proceed; it assumes the file sorted last is the newest one and the one to start calculating backwards from, it is not month end nor year end safe, and it requires shell arithmetic as provided by e.g. bash (recent).

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