Login or Register to Ask a Question and Join Our Community


Shell Programming and Scripting

How to remove a file in shell script if its size exceeds limit?

Login to Discuss or Reply to this Discussion in Our Community

 
Thread Tools Search this Thread
Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to remove a file in shell script if its size exceeds limit?
# 1  
Old 12-29-2011
How to remove a file in shell script if its size exceeds limit?
How can i remove a file using shell script when its size exceeds 10MB. Given that file is located in different location to the shell script where it is running?
# 2  
Old 12-29-2011
You don't mention what OS you're using but some versions of find have a "-size" flag:

Code:
find /somewhere -type f -size +10M -exec rm -f {} \;

# 3  
Old 01-07-2012
Thanks for your help. Please help me to implement this in a if condition.

Say,
Code:
if[file_size > 10MB]
then 
rm file_name*.txt
fi

Last edited by vel4ever; 01-07-2012 at 09:02 AM..
# 4  
Old 01-07-2012
Code:
file_size=$( stat -c %s /your/file )
if [ $file_size -gt 10000 ]
then
  rm /your/file
fi

--ahamed
This User Gave Thanks to ahamed101 For This Post:
vel4ever
# 5  
Old 01-07-2012
Thanks a lot ahamed..
Login or Register to Ask a Question

Previous Thread | Next Thread

10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. Solaris

.profile[21]: ulimit: exceeds allowable limit

Hello All, I am having an issue with ellipse environment, Subscribing ellipse version /opt/mincom/ellipse/bs037__ora_cics_svr .profile: ulimit: exceeds allowable limit , prj -l ellsupp #ulimit -a time(seconds) unlimited file(blocks) unlimited data(kbytes) unlimited stack(kbytes) 8192... (22 Replies)
Discussion started by: Revathi2089
22 Replies

2. Solaris

18-Mar-2012 14:25:03.209 general: error: socket: file descriptor exceeds limit (4096/4096)

I have BIND 9.8.1-P1 cache only DNS server running in Solaris 10. I have upgraded the same from 9.6.1 to 9.8.1-P1. Now i am facing "file descriptor exceeds limit (4096/4096)" error frequently on the server. Please help me on this issue! (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: sandeep.tk
1 Replies

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

shell script to remove all lines which exceeds a particular date & time

I have a text file which got 6th coloumn as date and 7th coloumn as time. The text contains data for last one week. I need to remove all the data whose date & time is after 03/08/2011 06:00:00 and save it on another file TEXT FILE ======== 6 dbclstr-b IXT_Web Memphis_Prod_SQL_Diff... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: ajiwww
4 Replies

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Shell script to copy a log file if it exceeds 5000000 bytes

Hi, on unix box, under /local/home/userid/logs folder, apps generated the following files sw_warn.log sw_error.log eaijava.log if there any application specific errors, the above file will keep growing. if the file exceed 5000000 bytes, I would like to have a shell script which do... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: lookinginfo
6 Replies

5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

rename a file if it exceeds 1MB in size

Hi all. I am trying to write a script that renames a logfile if it exceeds roughly 1 MB. My find command is: find some_logfile -type f -size +20000 Now I want to do my processing if it finds a file or not... How can I go about this? The $? is 0 if it finds a file or not. All... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: jamie_collins
4 Replies

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Log Size Exceeds Limit

Everytime I try to start Discreet Flame on my Octane2 machine it keeps giving me an error message "initial log size exceeds limit--aborting" Can anyone please help me how to fix this problem. Thanks. Octane2 IRIX64 Release 6.5 Flame 2007 (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: dewaraja
6 Replies

7. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Log Size Exceeds Limit

Everytime I try to start Discreet Flame on my Octane2 machine it keeps giving me an error message "initial log size exceeds limit--aborting" Can anyone please help me how to fix this problem. Thanks. Octane2 IRIX64 Release 6.5 Flame 2007 (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: dewaraja
0 Replies

8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Log Size Exceeds Limit

Everytime I try to start Discreet Flame on my Octane2 machine it keeps giving me an error message "initial log size exceeds limit--aborting" Can anyone please help me how to fix this problem. Thanks. Octane2 IRIX64 Release 6.5 Flame 2007 (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: dewaraja
0 Replies

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Alert When a Process Exceeds a CPU Utilization Limit...

Hi EveryOne We run CICS Sofware on our AIX Machine... When ever some Process or Transaction loops it Takes heavy process Usage.. Is there a way that i can Get a alert message or a Message Thrown on to screen when ever a process named "cicsas" uses more that 20%... fo CPU.. I was... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: pbsrinivas
4 Replies

10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Counting Files and send an email Notification if it exceeds a limit

Hi, I am trying to write a script to Count Files in a directory located on a remote server and send an email Notification if it exceeds a limit. The code given below doesnot check the condition and sends the mail everytime irrespective of the condition. I have put this script in the cron. Can... (10 Replies)
Discussion started by: amitsayshii
10 Replies
Login or Register to Ask a Question