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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Conditional delete Post 303022226 by onenessboy on Tuesday 28th of August 2018 08:56:26 AM
Old 08-28-2018
Conditional delete

Hi Friends,

I have somefiles like
Code:
20180720_1812.tar.gz
20180720_1912.tar.gz 
20180720_2012.tar.gz 
20180720_2112.tar.gz 
20180721_0012.tar.gz 
20180721_0112.tar.gz 
20180721_0212.tar.gz  
20180721_0312.tar.gz

in a directory and so on..these files gets created every 3 hours where as first part of file name is date and second part is time.

however as its occupying more space on disk, its required to delete old files which we manually doing now...in such a way that only last 30 days backup files should be there, any file before that should be deleted

however we have a challenge even after clearing files before 30 days, still lot of disc filled, now idea is to keep only 1 file for any given day which is being last time stamp on that day and delete rest of files for that day , in such way I can retain one file for any day and free up some space.

for example , for 2018-7 -20, i can retain 20180720_2112.tar.gz -- assuming this the last backup for that day, delete rest 3 files ..in that way, i will have atleast one file of backup for a day and free up some space by deleting rest of the copies for that given day

Code:
20180720_1812.tar.gz
20180720_1912.tar.gz 
20180720_2012.tar.gz 
20180720_2112.tar.gz

Any idea how can i do it conditionally. Appreciate any help




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SHAPE_TAR(1)						      General Commands Manual						      SHAPE_TAR(1)

NAME
shape_tar - shapeTools RMS bundle up subsystem in a tar or shar archive SYNOPSIS
shape tar[VERSIONS=<version_selection_rule>] [ARCHIVE=<filename>] shape shar[VERSIONS=<version_selection_rule>] [ARCHIVE=<filename>] DESCRIPTION
Shape tar and shape shar create a tar or a shar archive containing all source components of the current node in the system tree. All source components listed in the COMPONENTS macro in the Makefile and the release identification file (VERSIONFILE) are written to the archive. Components of subsystems are not included in the archive file. The VERSIONS macro may be set to specify a version selection rule to be active during archive file creation. Default is most_recent, selecting the most recent version of each component. See shape_stdrul(7) or the $(SHAPELIBPATH)/stdrules for other possible settings. You may also use self defined version selection rules as VERSIONS. ARCHIVE is the base name of the file where the output shall be written to. Default is $(SUBSYSTEMNAME). The output file gets the filename extension .tar (resp. .shar). When ARCHIVE=- is given, data will be written to standard output. SEE ALSO
shape_RMS(1), shape_stdrul(7) FILES
$(SUBSYSTEMNAME).tar $(SUBSYSTEMNAME).shar 7.8.119 SHAPE_TAR(1)
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