Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi ,

I need to remove files from a specific directory which are 7 days old
using folowing find comand as:
find /home/dir1/log -name "run*.log" -mtime +6 -prune -exec rm -f {} \;
but my script should traverse to /home/dir1/log
and them delete the specified files in the directory.
i.e instead of rm home/dir1/log/run*.log. it should do rm run*.log

please help me

Thanks and Regards

If i undertodd you right you want to find a file in dirA and delete the coresponding file in dirB.

find dirA -type file -name .. -mtime ...... | while read i ; do
file=$(echo $i | awk -F"/" '{print $NF}')
rm dirB/$file
done

Code:

#Always test this sort of script with echo statements before deleting anything.
DIR="/home/dir1/log"
if [ -d "${DIR}" ]
then
     cd "${DIR}"
     find . -name run\*\.log -type f -mtime +6 -print|while read FILENAME
     do
          echo "File which would be deleted: ${FILENAME}"
          # rm -f "${FILENAME}"
     done
else
     echo "Directory missing: ${DIR}"
fi