In my redhat 5 sysem , there are many files are generated to a directory, I would like to do the housekeeping as following , move the files elder than 90 days to a specific directory , then remove the the files elder than 180 days from this specific directory ,
I have a script to do it .
it works to do the housekeeping , however , it is not easy to maint. the script , as there are many path ( over 70 ) , therefore , there are 140 lines in the script , can advise how to write a professional script to do it ? thanks
Last edited by Scott; 12-26-2012 at 01:06 PM..
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I think the best & efficient approach to handle this task is to create a cleanup rule file. A file with rules defined to maintain each directory.
To give you an idea, here I am having a rule file with following data:-
Directory - Directory to maintain
Days - Days to keep the files
Move - Move Flag (If set to 1 then execute mv in find command)
Remove - Remove Flag (If set to 1 then execute rm in find command)
Destination - Destination directory to move if Move Flag is set.
Now you just have to write a script to read data from this pipe delimited file and run find command for each rule. It will be easy and simple if you want to modify or add a new rule because you don't have to change the code but just simply change the rule file. I hope this helps.
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