Login or Register to Ask a Question and Join Our Community


Shell Programming and Scripting

Clean Older packages

Login to Discuss or Reply to this Discussion in Our Community

 
Thread Tools Search this Thread
Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Clean Older packages
# 1  
Old 04-05-2012
Clean Older packages
Hi All,

I need a script that automates the following process -

I do a " ls -ltr |awk ... |sort " to get a list of packages within a directory, the packages have date/time stamp on them and they get sorted out, I want to delete the packages which are of older timestamp and leaving out the last 2 packages from deletion.


Timestamp is of this pattern - <appname>-20120330-143912-456557f3f5b34a8091dcecd69ec123dd

ls -ltr |awk ... |sort

Appname1-20120330-143912-756557f3f5b34a8091dcecd69ec12423
Appname1-20120402-173057-e30fc8463a1d444185983ccb6d319c33
Appname1-20120404-182519-c32abb08f0bb4ae0bb887818d5c14022
Appname2-20120402-173057-e30fc8463a1d444185983ccb6d319c33
Appname2-20120404-182519-c32abb08f0bb4ae0bb887818d5c14022
Appname3-20120404-182519-c32abb08f0bb4ae0bb887818d5c14022

In the above case the script should delete -

Appname1-20120330-143912-756557f3f5b34a8091dcecd69ec12423
Appname1-20120402-173057-e30fc8463a1d444185983ccb6d319c33

leaving out the last 2 packages intact and should not delete.

Thanks,
Jack.
# 2  
Old 04-05-2012
how do you define old timestamp ? 1 day older ?
Login or Register to Ask a Question

Previous Thread | Next Thread

9 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Clean up Scripts

Hi i have a perl script that i use to clean up empty folders on our server. I need to make a amendment to this to exclude certain folders. Folders are invisible to end users but must not be cleaned up by this script. folders i need protecting have unique names .Highres .HighresF .Lowres... (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: treds
0 Replies

2. Slackware

Find Slackware Packages - packages.acl.org.ua

Hi! Let me introduce a project for find and download Slackware packages and browse Slackware repositories. The site provides following features: * Large, daily updated database with RPM, DEB, TGZ, TXZ packages for well-known repositories of the Slackware, Fedora, CentOS, RHEL, Debian,... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: lystor
2 Replies

3. AIX

How to clean PV id?

When I run command: >chdev -l hdisk1 -a pv=clear It shows Method error (/etc/methods/chgdisk): 0514-062 Cannot perform the requested function because the specified device is busy. run: #>fuser -kxuc /dev/raw1 /dev/raw1: How to clean PV id? (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: rainbow_bean
4 Replies

4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Help me clean this up

UNIX amature/novice. I've written a script (it works) that needs to be cleaned up. I'm searching for a way to perform a "go to , perform this then return" section of code. The books I have and searches i"ve done so far do not show me how to do this. I've pasted in the current code below. I've... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: scanner248
1 Replies

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

clean /etc/hosts

hi all, i need to write a script. it should be able to clean the /etc/hosts file like this: first field is the ip (what else ;)) second field is the fqdn (full qualified domain name) third field is the hostname the fourth to n'th field is the rest. i hope you understand what is needed?... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: DukeNuke2
5 Replies

6. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Clean File

BeginDate 07/01/06 End: 07/31/06 Cust: A02991 - Burnham 0002000 5,829,773 145.3 0009701 4,043,850 267.3 2005000 286,785.13 100.0 BeginDate 07/01/06 End: 07/31/06 Cust: A01239 - East Track PSE Index A 0009902 317,356.82 890.2 0020021 ... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: kris01752
5 Replies

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

clean up script

I have a script which would monitor a given directory and delete any files which are older than 10 days. I was going to set the 10 crob jobs to perform this operation for 10 different directories (some are actually sub-directories), but my boss doesn't like that idea, so I need to do that in one... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: mpang_
1 Replies

8. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Clean an LV out of the ODM

I recently had a disk crash and was not able to clean the dump lv off the disk. Now trying to create new lvdump I am running into errors. My question is how do I remove the old lv out of the ODM? I have tried going through smit and also just rmlv and it cannot find the lv. Yet when I run lslv on... (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: Wamland
0 Replies

9. AIX

Directory clean up

I want to write a script in ksh that will delete file that are more than 2 weeks old. (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: jango
4 Replies
Login or Register to Ask a Question