HP-UX

I work on a production server. I have to check one folder named "spool" and delete files under it , which are more than 5 minutes old.

I do it manually by writing two commands.

Code:

touch  -t  YYMMDDHHMMSS /tmp/timeinfo
 
find   /spool !  -newer /tmp/timeinfo   -exec rm -rf {} \;

I want to write down the script for this activity, where a script will check the current time of system and according to that it will delete files under spool directory which are 5 minutes older than current time.

Please guide me. I am new to scripting!

Thanks!!

Yes, the OS is HP-UNIX !

easily create file named script.sh and put your 2 commands inside it now you have script
run it as follows

I belive he is looking a way to automate touch command to make the file /tmp/timeinfo 5 minutes in past from the time the script is executed.

I would use perl and touch on HPUX in absence of gnu date.

Code:

touch -t $(perl -e 'use POSIX;print strftime "%Y%m%d%H%M\n",localtime time-300;') /tmp/timeinfo
find /spool ! -newer /tmp/timeinfo -exec ls -lrt {} \; # replace with rm

Regards
Peasant.

Code:

touch /tmp/$$
while [ -r /tmp/$$ ]
do
touch /tmp/$$
sleep 300
find   /spool !  -newer /tmp/$$   -exec rm -rf {} \;
done

Then have a separate process remove /tmp/$$ to stop the process.

Will this work? is it a complete script? I am new to scripting.

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Hey What is this? a perl script?
What is sequence of this script?
I just want to delete queue files which are 5 minutes older than current time.