Shell Programming and Scripting

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.

Code:

for abc in `find /xxx/abc/OutputFiles/xxxx_*.txt -type f -mtime +5|xargs ls 1`
do
   echo "xxx files are:"$abc
   rm $abc
done

Thanks in Advance.
Regards,
Harris

Moderator's Comments:

Please use code tags next time for your code and data.

Hello harris,

I'm not sure if you mean 7 days (as in your text) or 5 days (in your code), but you could do this in a single command:

Code:

find /xxx/abc/OutputFiles/xxxx_*.txt -type f -mtime +7 -print -exec rm {} \;

This will list each file as it is deleted. If you with to use xargs you could:

Code:

find /xxx/abc/OutputFiles/xxxx_*.txt -type f -mtime +7 | xargs -tn 1 rm

.... and it will do the same.


I do have a question about your find though. Is there really a set of directories that will match xxxx*.txt? That would seem to be the file names. If there are many, when the shell expansion happens, it can blow the command up, so you may be better with:

Code:

find /xxx/abc/OutputFiles -name "xxxx_*.txt" ..... etc.

I hope that this helps,
Robin
Liverpool/Blackburn
UK