Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello,

I'm spendind hours trying to figure out how a script could remove files and folders older than 30days in a given volume (/dataVolumes/Booba.1.0).
Within this volume, all users have their personal folder that starts with "RC-..", so the script should skip them for deletion.
I will integrate this script to a longer one, that periodically does the maintenance (fsck and defragfs) on the server.

Any help is more than welcome !
THANKS,
H.

You can do something like that :

Code:

find dataVolumes/Booba.1.0 \( -type d -name 'RC-*' -prune \) -o -mtime +7 | xargs rm

Read the find man pages.

Hi Jean-Pierre,
thanks for your answer. Unfortunately, this script doesnt delete all the files and folders.. for some unknown reason, it says:

rm: cannot remove directory dataVolumes/Booba.1.0/lanoo/.Acro26992
rm: cannot remove directory dataVolumes/Booba.1.0/lanoo/.Acro26992/.rsrc
rm: cannot remove directory dataVolumes/Booba.1.0/lanoo/.rsrc
rm: cannot remove directory dataVolumes/Booba.1.0/testerwin
rm: cannot remove directory dataVolumes/Booba.1.0/testerwin/.rsrc
rm: cannot remove directory dataVolumes/Booba.1.0/imagopdf2400
rm: cannot remove directory dataVolumes/Booba.1.0/imagopdf2400/.rsrc
rm: cannot remove directory .....

any idea ?
Merci !
H.

As u r deleting the directory, u hv to give recursive option. So with little modification it will work.

find dataVolumes/Booba.1.0 \( -type d -name 'RC-*' -prune \) -o -mtime +7 | xargs rm -rf

It is still not working

#stop atalk and Legato
echo "Stopping atalk . . ." |tee -a $LOGFILE
/usr/local/es/stop-atalk now >/dev/null 2>&1
echo "Stopping NFS . . ." |tee -a $LOGFILE
stopsrc -g nfs >/dev/null 2>&1
echo "Stopping Samba . . ." |tee -a $LOGFILE
/comp/version/scripts/stopsmb >/dev/null 2>&1

#remove files older than 30days in dataVolumes/Booba.1.0,except 'RC-*' folders
find /dataVolumes/Booba.1.0 \( -type d -name 'RC-*' -prune \) -o -mtime +7 | xargs rm -rf