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Old 02-07-2012
To create a script and schedule which purge 30 days old files
Hi Friends,

Very new in Unix and i got a requirement like writing a script and schedule it, so that it removes 30 days old files from all the log locations of a unix box.

Suppose i have a unix server ltbamdev1 and in this server i have a mount point opt/bam. In this mount point i have 3 different folders like

/ltbamdev1/oracle/install/product/10.1.3.1/OracleAS_1/opmn/logs
/ltbamdev1/oracle/install/product/10.1.3.1/OracleAS_1/bpel/domains/default/logs
/ltbamdev1/oracle/install/product/10.1.3.1/OracleAS_1/bpel/domains/support/logs


Please help me in writing a script which runs once a week and removes all 30 days old files from these three folder locations.


Thanks in advance
Duos


---------- Post updated at 01:32 AM ---------- Previous update was at 01:20 AM ----------

Currently i am doing in this way to remove file older than 30 days....

Code:
find ./ -name "*" -mtime +30 -exec rm {} \;

but i want a automated one. Need help on this.

Thanks
Duos
Last edited by Franklin52; 02-08-2012 at 05:48 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags for code and data samples, thank you
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Old 02-07-2012
Sounds like a job for cron (system for scheduling jobs). Read up on cron:
Code:
man cron

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