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Old 03-17-2010
Delete folders and files in it - UNIX
I need to delete a folder and files in it of yesterdays and simply put this in cron.
Folder name - "2010-03-2010"
File name - "eprod_06_23.dmp" and "eprod_06_23.exp"
Actually this folder and file is been created by a script which takes a backup of DB everyday.Thats why it creates folder and file of that day and the size of these files are too big.so need a automated script to delete it.



Basically the script should find the yesterdays folder and file in it and simply delete those...
This will be an on going process, that means if I run the script on 23rd of this month it should search the folder for previous day (22nd)
and simply delete that folder and files in it...

Regards,
PAN
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Old 03-17-2010
using - mtime option in find u can get the files of yesterday

Code:
find /UR_PATH -mtime +1 -type f -exec rm -f {} \;

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Old 03-17-2010
hmm...
At the below path a folder and files in it gets created after executing x script.
/usr/mis/2010-03-17..
i need to execute this backup script everyday..that means it will created a separate folder/file for that particular day.if tomorrow a folder 2010-03-18 will be created.
i ned to put this in crontab so that it will search yesterday folder and delete the folder and content (files) of that folder..It will be an automated process...
Please suggest..
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Old 03-17-2010
in script u can add the dynamic folder as a varible

DIR=`date '+DATE: %m-%d-%y%n' | awk '{ print $2 }'`

find /usr/mis/$DIR -mtime +1 -type f -exec rm -f {} \;

This is a example
Now check the man pages of date command to get the desired out put
Last edited by amitranjansahu; 03-17-2010 at 07:22 AM.. Reason: typo
 
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