Hi,
I am using Solaris Box, I need to delete file(cookies.html) from the path(/usr/temp) which are older than 24 hours(I want in hours, not in days)
Can u provide the command for the above query (7 Replies)
Hi Guys,
I want to delete folder/files older than 7 days. Im using the command below.
find /test/test1 -mtime +7 -print0 | xargs -0 rm -Rf /test/test1/*
which works ok, but it deletes the test1 folder as well which i dont want. The test1 folder will have a list of sub-folders which in... (4 Replies)
Hello,
I am trying to delete specific files older than 7 days that start with FSTRnnnn (nnnn=sequnce number) from /home/users/userdir
I.E
cd home/users/userdir
ll
FSTR0001 Jul 8 14:20
FSTR0002 Jul 6 12:01
FSTR0003 May 25 09:45
FSTR0004 April 2 17:20
MSTR0034 Jul 6 12:45... (3 Replies)
hi
This should be easy but i'm obviously missing something obvious. :)
I'm looking to delete files from yesterday and older of extension .txt and there a range of subfolders with these files in them. The command runs but doesn't delete anything. SUSE 10.
find /testfolder -maxdepth 2 -type f... (6 Replies)
Hi Guys,
I am new to unix
I am looking for a script to delete files older than 7 days but i also want to exclude certain directories (like arch,log .....) and also some files with extensions
( like .ksh, .ch, ..............)
Thanks (1 Reply)
Hi All,
I am using the below script to find all the files in a folder which are older than 6 hours and delete all those files, but some how I am not getting the required output.
find $HOME/Log -type f -name "*.log" -amin +360 -exec rm *.* {} \
can any one please check and let me know... (13 Replies)
Hi
In my aix server under the location "/usr/sap/SAPXI/extract", I have a lot of log files.
I need a script which is to be added in crontab so that the files and directories older than 14 days should get deleted automatically from the location "/usr/sap/SAPXI/extract".
Please advise me.... (3 Replies)
I have a qnap TS259 that is running ubuntu. Have successfully setup back scripts that are initiated by cron.
I would like to create a couple scrypts that would operate on the recycle bins for both drives. Just want to be able to run the script manually that would walk through both directories... (13 Replies)
How to Deleting Files Older than 1 hours.
Base on SunOS.
this file gen every 1 min.
-rw-r--r-- 1 nobody nobody 4960 Jan 27 02:02 23_201301270201.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 nobody amudu 2325 Jan 27 02:03 33_201301270202.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 nobody amudu 3255 Jan 27 02:03... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I need to delete *.bad files which are 1 week old. How can I achieve that. I tried doing through below script but it deletes all the files.
find ./ -mtime +7 -exec rm *.bad {} \;
The below one works but i want to delete only files with .bad extension
find . -mtime +7 | xargs rm (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: Gangadhar Reddy
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shell-quote
SHELL-QUOTE(1) User Contributed Perl Documentation SHELL-QUOTE(1)NAME
shell-quote - quote arguments for safe use, unmodified in a shell command
SYNOPSIS
shell-quote [switch]... arg...
DESCRIPTION
shell-quote lets you pass arbitrary strings through the shell so that they won't be changed by the shell. This lets you process commands
or files with embedded white space or shell globbing characters safely. Here are a few examples.
EXAMPLES
ssh preserving args
When running a remote command with ssh, ssh doesn't preserve the separate arguments it receives. It just joins them with spaces and
passes them to "$SHELL -c". This doesn't work as intended:
ssh host touch 'hi there' # fails
It creates 2 files, hi and there. Instead, do this:
cmd=`shell-quote touch 'hi there'`
ssh host "$cmd"
This gives you just 1 file, hi there.
process find output
It's not ordinarily possible to process an arbitrary list of files output by find with a shell script. Anything you put in $IFS to
split up the output could legitimately be in a file's name. Here's how you can do it using shell-quote:
eval set -- `find -type f -print0 | xargs -0 shell-quote --`
debug shell scripts
shell-quote is better than echo for debugging shell scripts.
debug() {
[ -z "$debug" ] || shell-quote "debug:" "$@"
}
With echo you can't tell the difference between "debug 'foo bar'" and "debug foo bar", but with shell-quote you can.
save a command for later
shell-quote can be used to build up a shell command to run later. Say you want the user to be able to give you switches for a command
you're going to run. If you don't want the switches to be re-evaluated by the shell (which is usually a good idea, else there are
things the user can't pass through), you can do something like this:
user_switches=
while [ $# != 0 ]
do
case x$1 in
x--pass-through)
[ $# -gt 1 ] || die "need an argument for $1"
user_switches="$user_switches "`shell-quote -- "$2"`
shift;;
# process other switches
esac
shift
done
# later
eval "shell-quote some-command $user_switches my args"
OPTIONS --debug
Turn debugging on.
--help
Show the usage message and die.
--version
Show the version number and exit.
AVAILABILITY
The code is licensed under the GNU GPL. Check http://www.argon.org/~roderick/ or CPAN for updated versions.
AUTHOR
Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
perl v5.16.3 2010-06-11 SHELL-QUOTE(1)