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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Regarding deletion of old files Post 93930 by RTM on Friday 23rd of December 2005 08:27:10 AM
Old 12-23-2005
It works fine for me - ran on Fedora.

Code:
FIRST RUN - ONLY LOOKING FOR THE FILES (CHANGED | xargs rm -f to just -ls)
[tghunter@localhost ~]$ ./oldfiles
. is a directory on this machine
Time Limit:+1900
looking for files older than +1900 days to be deleted from .
387600    8 -rw-r--r--   1 tghunter tghunter     2048 Sep 19  2000 ./.openoffice.org2.0/user/gallery/sg100.sdv
older files are now deleted successfully

[tghunter@localhost ~]$ cp ./.openoffice.org2.0/user/gallery/sg100.sdv ./.openoffice.org2.0/user/gallery/sg100.sdvhog
[tghunter@localhost ~]$ ./oldfiles
. is a directory on this machine
Time Limit:+1900
looking for files older than +1900 days to be deleted from .
387600    8 -rw-r--r--   1 tghunter tghunter     2048 Sep 19  2000 ./.openoffice.org2.0/user/gallery/sg100.sdv
older files are now deleted successfully
CHANGED TO REMOVE FILES
[tghunter@localhost ~]$ vi oldfiles
[tghunter@localhost ~]$ ./oldfiles
. is a directory on this machine
Time Limit:+1900
looking for files older than +1900 days to be deleted from .
older files are now deleted successfully
[tghunter@localhost ~]$ ls ./.openoffice.org2.0/user/gallery/sg100.sdv
ls: ./.openoffice.org2.0/user/gallery/sg100.sdv: No such file or directory
[tghunter@localhost ~]$ ls ./.openoffice.org2.0/user/gallery/sg100.sdvhog
./.openoffice.org2.0/user/gallery/sg100.sdvhog
[tghunter@localhost ~]$ mv ./.openoffice.org2.0/user/gallery/sg100.sdvhog ./.openoffice.org2.0/user/gallery/sg100.sdv
[tghunter@localhost ~]$ cat param.txt
.    +1900

Check that your param.txt file is set up correctly and check your script by listing the files versus removing them to insure it will only get the files you really want to remove. (find $DIR -type f -mtime $TIME -ls )
 

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