Tim Daneliuk <tun...@tundraware.com> writes: > On 02/13/2013 12:38 PM, Teske, Devin wrote: >> (apologies for top-post) >> >> As tempted as I am, I think newsyslog(8) may be what you want. >> >> Missing information in your post is how you intend to timestamp the >> files -- by filename? by content? If by-content, then is it a good >> assumption that the data is one entry per-line? ... and if-so, is >> the timestamp in that line? These are all questions that would be >> needed to script what you're asking for (not that I'm volunteering >> or anything like that). >> > > The only way to determine the date of the file is by looking at its > stat info. There is nothing the file name or content that could > be used to infer this.
Well, you can use stat to output the year, month, timestamp, and file name in a fixed format for all of the files, sort them, and then cycle through the list, deleting every file that has a year and month that are the same as the following one in the list. The looping can be done with sh "read" or with sed. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
