Note that using:
will invoke the rm utility once for each of the 200K files you want to remove. That is always going to be relatively slow. If you change that command to:
then the find utility will group together a large number of files to be processed by each invocation of the rm utility and run considerably faster.
And, as stated before but not told how, don't use rm live until you have verified that find is correctly selecting the files you want to process. I would suggest using:
first, and, if that produces commands that have correctly identified the files you want to remove, rerun the command without the echo.
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I'm trying to delete files that were created/modified in the year 2005 that we compressed and have the .Z extension on them. I tried using the awk utility but the syntax is incorrect. I don't know how to use a wildcard to capture all the compressed files. Here's the code I used
( ls -lR |... (5 Replies)
Hi,
Would like to ask, which command is used to list all the files for specific date (says 1st May) and its size, for all files (including its subdirectory), in a mounted NFS disk to HP-UX.
I would like to check for the total files came into my disk on 1st May.
Very much appreciating your... (2 Replies)
There is a system logging a huge amount of data and we need to delete some of the older logs .I mean the files that are created before one week from today. Here is a listing of files that are sitting there:
/usr/WebSphere/AppServer/logs
# ls -l
-rw-r--r-- 1 root system 3740694 May... (5 Replies)
can someone provide a command to delete files by year? I have several files created last year 2009.
Im trying to list first ls -lrt | grep '/2009/ {print $10}' by it returns no result.
Pls advise (2 Replies)
Hi
I have lot of files and subdirectories inside a directory which are created in the years 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010.
I want to delete all the files and subdirectories belonging to the year 2006 alone.
How can I do that ? (5 Replies)
Hi All,
I want to login to a remote server using FTP command and then check for files older than 1 year and delete those files.
Please let me know how can i achieve this using Unix Commands.
Thanks in Advance, (10 Replies)
Hi,
I want to display the file names and the record count for the files in the 2nd column for the files created today.
i have written the below command which is listing the file names. but while piping the above command to the wc -l command
its not working for me.
ls -l... (5 Replies)
Hi All,
how can i delete files from my Unix directory on the basis of year, i have files from 2001 to till 2014, but from their, i have to delete only 2013 file.Below is my file name
rwxrwxrwx 1 guopt users 5169 Jul 12 00:30 grt592_20130712003000.SAP
Thanks
Kki (2 Replies)
Hi
My directory structure is as below.
dir1, dir2, dir3
I have the list of files to be deleted in the below path as below.
/staging/retain_for_2years/Cleanup/log $ ls -lrt
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody nobody 256 Mar 01 16:15 01-MAR-2015_SPDBS2
drwxr-xr-x 2 root ... (2 Replies)
Hello Gurus,
I am facing one issue to get a file for a specific time. There are about 300 files created between 6.30 pm to 7.15 pm everyday.
Now I wanted only the file which is created on 6.45pm. No other files required.
I have used "find" command to get the files, but not getting the expected... (3 Replies)