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# 1  
Old 06-01-2007
Scripting help for rm log files from multiple dir
Hi,

I'm quite new to scripting and need some help. I need to have one script that will check specific directories for files older than one month and then have the script delete them.

I have written the script below but it only does one directory. I don't quite know how to make it so it checks other directories as well.

#!/bin/sh

DIR=/export/home/Scripts/Batch/Ds/edsf/archive
export DIR

cd $DIR;/usr/bin/find . -mtime +31 -type f | /usr/bin/xargs rm -rf

Any help would be appreciated.
# 2  
Old 06-01-2007
Morgadoa,
See if this works for you:
Code:
find your_directory -type f -mtime +31 -exec rm -f {} \;

# 3  
Old 06-01-2007
Thanks for your reply. I thought of the find command but I have 8 specific directories that contain files to be deleted.
Do I execute a separate find for each dir path eg.

/export/home/Scripts/logs
/export/home/GLOBAL/logs
/export/home/Batch/logs

and so on..
# 4  
Old 06-01-2007
One find command only
Code:
cd /export/home
find Scripts/logs GLOBAL/logs Batch/logs -type f -mtime +31  | xargs rm -f

Jean-Pierre.
# 5  
Old 06-01-2007
Here is how you do it:
Code:
mDirList="/export/home/Scripts/logs"
mDirList=${mDirList}" /export/home/GLOBAL/logs"
mDirList=${mDirList}" /export/home/Batch/logs"
for mEachDir in ${mDirList}
do
  echo "Now deleting from "${mEachDir}
  find ${mEachDir} -type f -mtime +31 -exec rm -f {} \;
done

# 6  
Old 06-01-2007
Thanks for your help. Looks simple enough. I just wanted to confirm that the second and third line are just ammending to the variable mDirList in order to compile the list of directories- right?
# 7  
Old 06-01-2007
Yes, you can just keep adding as many directories as you want:
Code:
mDirList=${mDirList}" other_dir01"
mDirList=${mDirList}" other_dir02"
mDirList=${mDirList}" other_dir03"
...
mDirList=${mDirList}" other_dirNN"
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