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Old 12-07-2017
How to delete filesappended with timestamp?
I have the following script

Code:
#!/bin/bash
# Script for running the snapshot of target directories

now=$(date +'%Y-%m-%d')
/bin/hdfs dfs -createSnapshot /apps/hive/warehouse/xyz.db $now

How do i delete the same in a script
see below a example

Code:
/apps/hive/warehouse/xyz.db/.snapshot/2017-05-24


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Old 12-07-2017
Welcome to the forum.

What did you try, and in which way did that fail? Please be very descriptive and detailed.
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