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Operating Systems Linux Ubuntu Delete all files that match date '+%Y-%m-%d_%H:%M' Post 303031595 by Don Cragun on Saturday 2nd of March 2019 04:08:55 PM
Old 03-02-2019
Quote:
Originally Posted by drew77
I showed my work. I am stuck.


I see no need to remind me how many posts I have made each time I post.
Well before the time you get to 100 posts, we expect you to have a basic understanding of the commands that you are posting and have some idea of what they are doing. Your question seems to imply that you have no idea what the code you have shown us is doing.

In post #1 you implied that the code you are using is keeping two "date" files. With the tail -1 I don't see anything in your code that would keep more than one file.

We would expect by now that you would know that the rm in the find -exec primary is what is being used to remove files and that the find ! -name "$LATEST_FILE" is what is keeping one file from being removed, and if that is the case it would seem that removing that primary from the find command would make that command also remove the file that is being skipped:
Code:
find "$TARGET_DIR" ! -type f -regextype egrep -regex ".*/${REGEX}$" -exec rm -f {} +

But, of course, I would never try that without first running:
Code:
find "$TARGET_DIR" ! -type f -regextype egrep -regex ".*/${REGEX}$" -exec echo rm -f {} +

and verifying that the rm commands that find prints are what you would expect them to be for what you are trying to do.

And, I don't see how the rsync command you have shown us has anything to do with the problem you have described.

Or, maybe I have misunderstood your problem. Are you saying that you want files removed from the target directory used in your rsync command instead of from the source directory used in your rsync command? But, if that was the case, we would expect you to say that none of the "date" files are being removed from that directory instead of implying that after you run this script only two "date" files are kept in that directory.
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

rsync_selinux

rsync_selinux(8)					rsync Selinux Policy documentation					  rsync_selinux(8)

NAME

       rsync_selinux - Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the rsync daemon

DESCRIPTION

       Security-Enhanced Linux secures the rsync server via flexible mandatory access control.

FILE_CONTEXTS
       SELinux	requires  files to have an extended attribute to define the file type.	Policy governs the access daemons have to these files.	If
       you want to share files using the rsync daemon, you must label the files and directories public_content_t.  So if  you  created	a  special
       directory /var/rsync, you would need to label the directory with the chcon tool.

       chcon -t public_content_t /var/rsync

       To make this change permanent (survive a relabel), use the semanage command to add the change to file context configuration:

       semanage fcontext -a -t public_content_t "/var/rsync(/.*)?"

       This command adds the following entry to /etc/selinux/POLICYTYPE/contexts/files/file_contexts.local:

       /var/rsync(/.*)? system_u:object_r:publix_content_t:s0

       Run the restorecon command to apply the changes:

       restorecon -R -v /var/rsync/

SHARING FILES

       If  you	want  to  share  files	with multiple domains (Apache, FTP, rsync, Samba), you can set a file context of public_content_t and pub-
       lic_content_rw_t.  These context allow any of the above domains to read the content.  If you want a particular domain to write to the  pub-
       lic_content_rw_t domain, you must set the appropriate boolean.  allow_DOMAIN_anon_write.  So for rsync you would execute:

       setsebool -P allow_rsync_anon_write=1

BOOLEANS

       system-config-selinux is a GUI tool available to customize SELinux policy settings.

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Dan Walsh <dwalsh@redhat.com>.

SEE ALSO

       selinux(8), rsync(1), chcon(1), setsebool(8), semanage(8)

dwalsh@redhat.com						    17 Jan 2005 						  rsync_selinux(8)
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