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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Removing files automatically from a directory after 30 days. Post 75987 by justinb_155 on Thursday 23rd of June 2005 06:09:14 PM
Old 06-23-2005
Removing files automatically from a directory after 30 days.

Hello;

I have a directory that is collecting log and act files. I need to write a script that will remove these files once they are 30 days old. I have read through a number of threads on this site that have given me a great deal of information. However I have what seems to be a unique situation. I can't use the -atime or the -mtime commands because not all the files that haven't been modified or accessed can be deleted. There are non log or act files in this directory. One thing that may help is that the log and act files use yyyymmdd.log or yyyymmdd.act file naming system. IE 20050623.log or 20050623.act. How can I use this to generate my script? Thank you very much in advance for your knowledge and help.
 

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strclean(1M)															      strclean(1M)

NAME
strclean - remove outdated STREAMS error log files SYNOPSIS
logdir] age] DESCRIPTION
cleans the STREAMS error logger directory of log files mm-dd) that contain error messages sent by the STREAMS log driver, strlog(7). If the option is not used to specify another directory, removes error log files in the directory. If the option is not used to specify another age, removes error log files that have not been modified in three days. Options recognizes the following options and command-line arguments: Specifies a directory for the location of the STREAMS error log files to be removed if this is not the default directory Specifies a maximum age in days for the STREAMS error log files if this not the default age of 3. The value of age must be an integer greater than or less than 3. EXAMPLES
Remove day-old error log files from a directory called FILES
One or more error log file or files on which operates. The mm-dd in the filename indicates the month and day of the messages con- tained in the file. NLS catalog for SEE ALSO
strerr(1M), strlog(7). strclean(1M)
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