Am using diff to compare 2 directories(A & B) and as ouput i get a list of files which are found only in directory B ( I used grep & sed to create the list).
Now I want to delete the files which are found only in dir B after 3 days.
Please help me with this.
Maybe you can use first the find so that you get all the files you need that are older than 3 days and do then your diff etc. ie. change the order to sort them out.
I need to list and delete all files in current older which are olderthan 7 days. But my file names have white spaces. Before deleting I want to list all the files, so that I can verify.find . -type f -mtime +7 | xargs ls -l {}
But the ls command is the working on the files which have white... (16 Replies)
Hi Team,
I have to remove files which are more than 7 days in my target directory.
I have this script but using this i faced some problems like, removed library files of unix.
for abc in `find /xxx/abc/OutputFiles/xxxx_*.txt -type f -mtime +5|xargs ls 1`
do
echo "xxx files are:"$abc
... (1 Reply)
I am using SFTP to transmit files from the Mainframe to an UNIX server. I am looking for some kind of script that runs with SFTP to delete tranmitted files older than 3 days.
Can this be done in a SFTP transmission batch job? (5 Replies)
Dear all,
I have a directory /homes/zak in which I have a number of directories which are created on a daily basis
thus:
02-MAY-10
03-MAY-10
04-MAY-10
05-MAY-10
I want to script the clean up of these directories, so I only keep two days worth,
so for example anything over 2 days... (10 Replies)
Hi, All,
I'd like to delete files older than 1 day.
I thought the following command
find /your_directory -mtime +1-exec rm -f {} \;
will do the work, but not so, it seems like it won't delete files unless it is 2 days old or older. the files between 1 day and 2 days old does not... (7 Replies)
I want to delete any file in unix file system which is older then a week.
Those files should not be unix system file..means it should be user created file.
Any clue to this ??
ASAP.
Thanks. (2 Replies)
I have a directory that contains files. I would like the command that deletes all files that are over 30 days old. Delete files based on creation date and not modified. (2 Replies)
Hi all,
how to write a script that will indentify the files in a directory which are 7 days old and delete those files.
Thanks in advance
Cheers
Arunava (8 Replies)