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Old 05-12-2009
Shell Programing with awk Tool
I'm working on a program in with shell programming and it needs to be able to delete the contents of files in the Home directory on certain days of the week.(like tuesday). Can anyone help me with this?

Thanks in advance, Taffy.
# 2  
Old 05-12-2009
Can you show us the code you have so far, and tell us how it misbehaves?

Regards
# 3  
Old 05-13-2009
All that I have so far is this

#!/bin/bash
date | awk '[ if $1 =="Tue" rm -rf File ]' //I tried this but it didnt work
if [ $1="Tue" ] // When i tried this it kept jumping to wrong indicating $1 !="Tue"
then rm -rf File
else
echo "Wrong"
fi
# 4  
Old 05-14-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by Taffy
All that I have so far is this

#!/bin/bash
date | awk '[ if $1 =="Tue" rm -rf File ]' //I tried this but it didnt work
if [ $1="Tue" ] // When i tried this it kept jumping to wrong indicating $1 !="Tue"
then rm -rf File
else
echo "Wrong"
fi
Should be something like:

Code:
dat=$(date "+%a")

if [ "$dat" = "Tue" ]; then
  # your actions
fi

# 5  
Old 05-14-2009
Thank you that worked but how would i be able to determine the three oldest files?(these would be the ones i would delete)
what function would i use to count and display the files in the home directory?
Sorry i know this is asking a lot but I could realy use the help, my exams dont leave me with alot of time.
thanks in advance.
# 6  
Old 05-15-2009
Check the manpages of ls and tail.
# 7  
Old 05-18-2009
how would you archive a file using tar with and give it a differnt name?
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