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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Conditional delete Post 303022328 by RudiC on Thursday 30th of August 2018 04:29:20 AM
Old 08-30-2018
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Originally Posted by onenessboy
Sorry at my poor knowledge...did not get you mean by pipe through sh...
can you give small example please...

Did you read and understand Don Cragun's post#4?



Quote:
Originally Posted by Don Cragun
I'm confused about a couple of points...
1st: In the pipeline feeding into awk:
Code:
stat -c"%n %b %B" 2018*.tar.gz | sort;

why is the sort needed? The shell will expand 2018*.tar.gz in increasing sorted order by the date and time stamps included in the filenames matched by that pattern and sort should not change that order.

Understood - I wasn't sure stat's output would be sorted although the shell expands / presents the file names sorted.


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2nd: In post #8, it was pointed out that the filename matching pattern I suggested in post #4 has a Y3K problem (i.e., would stop working in January, 3000). Using the filename matching pattern shown above (i.e., 2018*.tar.gz, the code will stop working in January, 2019. Do you really want to use a pattern that only matches files created this year?
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Originally Posted by onenessboy
regarding 2 nd point, obviously I need this to work after 2018 as well Smilie .

The proposal (as mainly all of my proposals) is to be read as a "proof of concept" and not as a "turnkey system". It does NOT relieve the user of developing a deep understanding and thoroughly checking / testing / adapting it before applying to real world - even less to production - systems. Please adapt to your needs, e.g. by reading, understanding, and applying other posts in this thread.

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