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Old 11-07-2012
Deleting entries older than 7 days from a file
Hi,

I have a file which contains entries in this format.
Code:
my-bin.000140
my-bin.000141
my-bin.000142
my-bin.000143
my-bin.000144
my-bin.000145
my-bin.000146
my-bin.000147
my-bin.000148
my-bin.000149
my-bin.000150
my-bin.000151
my-bin.000152
my-bin.000153
my-bin.000154
my-bin.000155
my-bin.000156
my-bin.000157
my-bin.000158
my-bin.000159
my-bin.000160
my-bin.000161
my-bin.000162
my-bin.000163
my-bin.000164
my-bin.000165
my-bin.000166
my-bin.000167
my-bin.000168
my-bin.000169

I want to delete entries which are older than 7 days.
Pls suggest.Smilie

---------- Post updated at 05:21 PM ---------- Previous update was at 03:39 PM ----------

any ideasSmilie
Last edited by Franklin52; 11-07-2012 at 06:52 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags for data and code samples
# 2  
Old 11-07-2012
I have a great idea. Stop bumping posts.

And just how are we supposed to know how old stuff is? I don't see any date information.
# 3  
Old 11-07-2012
Are those actual filenames? Otherwise I cannot see anything date-related with those lines of data.
Code:
# assume 2012 10 27  is seven days ago so
touch -t 201210270000  dummy
while read fname
do
  [ $fname -nt dummy ] && echo $fname
done < inputfile > newoutputfile

And please stop bumping posts.
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