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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Space in the directory name Post 7873 by devnul on Tuesday 2nd of October 2001 09:09:54 PM
Old 10-02-2001
Well, I have to say that there may be a more practical way of doing what you want... I mean, why not just have something which prunes away files that are over say 30-days old?...

Something like:
Code:
#!/usr/bin/perl

$volume=$ARGV[0];
@dirs=`find /usr/$volume -name Trash`;
$curtime=time();
$number_days=30;
foreach(@dirs)
{
  chomp();
  opendir(DIR,$_);
  while($fname=readdir(DIR))
  {
    ($dev,$ino,$mode,$nlink,$uid,$gid,$rdev,$size,$atime,$mtime,$ctime,$blksize,$blocks)=stat($fname};
    # 60 seconds, 60 minutes, 24 hours
    if($ctime < $curtime-(60*60*24*$number_days))
    {
      unlink $fname;
    }
  }
}

NOTE: You will want to test this because I haven't (!!!!!).... It's just an idea...

- dEvNuL

added code tags for readability --oombera

Last edited by oombera; 02-20-2004 at 11:41 AM..
 

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script(1)							   User Commands							 script(1)

NAME
script - make record of a terminal session SYNOPSIS
script [-a] [filename] DESCRIPTION
The script utility makes a record of everything printed on your screen. The record is written to filename. If no file name is given, the record is saved in the file typescript. See WARNINGS. The script command forks and creates a sub-shell, according to the value of $SHELL, and records the text from this session. The script ends when the forked shell exits or when Control-d is typed. OPTIONS
The following option is supported: -a Appends the session record to filename, rather than overwriting it. NOTES
script places everything that appears on the screen in filename, including prompts. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWcsu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |CSI |Enabled | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
attributes(5) WARNINGS
script can pose a security risk when used in directories that are writable by other users (for example, /tmp), especially when run by a privileged user, that is, root. Be sure that typescript is not a link before running script. SunOS 5.10 30 Jan 2004 script(1)
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