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ya.. it will list the files in date order.. but i hav to delete the files other than recently added 5 files.. (There should be only 5 files which are been recently added.. it should delete all the...

Number of files will get created in a folder automatically daily.. so i hav to delete the older files other than the recently added 5 files..
Could u help me through this..??

Cronjob is working now actually. But the problem i got now is,
Actually while running the script tar1.sh as a cronjob, only the else part is running.
i.e
Directory size doesnt exceed Threshold...

The permission is

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 294 Feb 19 23:26 /ask/tarballs/tar1.sh
The cronjob results showed as below

/bin/sh: /ask/tarballs/tar1.sh: Permission denied

Its showing
You have new mail in /var/spool/mail/root

But how to check that mail..??

And also the script hasn't ran at all.. coz it doesnt delete the file which is 30 days older

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I created a script,

size=`du -sm`
size=`echo $size | sed 's/.$//'`
size1='30720'
if [ $size -gt $size1 ]
then
{
find /ask/tarballs -type f -name "*.tgz" -mtime +30 -exec ls -l {} \;
find...

36 .
is the exact output for du -sm

actually..

size=`du -sh`
size=`echo $size | sed 's/.$//'`
size1='30'
if [ $size -gt $size1 ]
then
echo "size greater"
else
echo "size smaller"
fi

This doesnt work for me..
After i...

"you are using -h option, if your directory size goes to 1 to 29 GB, then the above command will fail. Because you are checking it for MB and we are removing the human readable format in the end ( M...

i changed the command to 'du -sm' so its working..

"you are using -h option, if your directory size goes to 1 to 29 GB, then the above command will fail. Because you are checking it for MB and we...

Yep.. Working !! Thank you

My Script is,
size='du -sh'
$size
size1='30M'
if [ $size -gt $size1 ]
then
echo "size greater"
else
echo "size smaller"
fi

its showing

36M .
size.sh: line 4: [: too many...

I use du -sk command to find the size of the directory but when i use the result of 'du -sk' into if statement its throwing error.. Could u solve with this..?

To find the whole size of a particular directory i use "du -sk /dirname".. but after finding the direcory's size how do i make conditions like if the size of the dir is more than 1 GB i hav to delete...