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I need a command for deleting all the compress files *.Z that are older than the current date - 5 days. Basically I have a directory where daily I meet some back up files and I want to remove automatically the ones 5 days (or more) older than the current date. How can I write a 'rm' command... (1 Reply)
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have written a script which generate one logfile on every sunday and thursday
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
To delete log files content older than 30 days and append the lastest date log file date in the respective logs
I want to write a shell script that deletes all log files content older than 30 days and append the lastest log file date in the respective logs
This is my script
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
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I need to find the list of files in a directory and to do some specific operations based on the type of files.
suppose in a directory am having .dat , .log, .err, .rej file types. i need to filter out .dat and .log only which are older than six months.
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5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
I need to delete all files, in a folder, older than 2010 that is 2009, 2008 ,.. files...
Can anyone suggest the command for that,...
Thanks
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humm,.. ok right now I am using the following:... (4 Replies)
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Guys,
My log files stored in the date format format below(log_20080714072942):
TIMESTAMP=`date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S`
LOG=/log/log_${TIMESTAMP}.log
I'm looking for a shell script which deletes all files which is older than 3 months from today.
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I want to find the files older than 4 hours and remove them in HP-UX 11.23. Can anyone tell me how to do this?
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am looking for a way to show files that have been created within a certain period (say anything older than 10 minutes or so). Is there a command/series of commands I can do this with? As an example, I have the following in a directory:
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
I need to find files that have the ending of .out and that are older than 20 days. However, I cannot use find as I do not want to search in the directories that are underneath the directory that I am searching in.
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all,
I want to delete all files in a directory which are older than a given date.
I thought of doing it by creating a file by the required date by using touch command. And then i would use find command on that file and try to find files older than that.
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