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Old 03-11-2016
Help in Removing the Old files

Hi Gurus,

we are planning to clear the old log files based on the year and i need help on this and i searched in google and i came up with the scripts but i am stuck with this.

(1) wroks fine

How many files exist in based on the extension
Code:
 find -type f | sed -e 's/.*\.//' | sort | uniq -c
   3745 txt
     45 dat
   1508 ds
   3745 rpt
      3 sh

(2) wroks fine

and i need to report how many files exist based on the year and here is the code.
Code:
 
find . -type f | xargs ls -l | grep -c "2012"
23
find . -type f | xargs ls -l | grep -c "2013"
1797
find . -type f | xargs ls -l | grep -c "2014"
3577
find . -type f | xargs ls -l | grep -c "2015"
3358
find . -type f | xargs ls -l | grep -c "2016"
323

Here the count of (1) and (2) differs and i am not sure what is missing

(3)

can i get, how many files exist based on the year for each extension files..?

(4)

here is the code which i tried and works fine with the removing old files But i need to remove the files based on the extension files(.rpt) and based on the year(20150101 - 20151231) So i can track the counts.
Code:
touch -t 201501010000.00 older
touch -t 201512310000.00 new
find myPath/folder -type f -newer older ! -newer new -ls

the above code removes the all the files based on the Year but i dont want to remove the files from the SubDirectories. need a help on that

(5) and last the .ds files want to remove the old files based on the year with the below command

orchadmin delete filename*.ds

any help and thanks


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Mod Comment Please use code tags next time, thanks

Last edited by vbe; 03-11-2016 at 12:36 PM.. Reason: code tags
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Old 03-11-2016
Quote:
the above code removes the all the files based on the Year but i dont want to remove the files from the SubDirectories. need a help on that
Ever considered using - prune option of find command?
 
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