Hi Karl,
We ran into this too, and the Unix "xargs" command took care of it
nicely.
Example:
The following purge will delete the files for a single month (assuming
you don't keep more than a year's worth, in which case you'll need to
check the year, too).
This string will prompt before purging each file:
ls -ltr|grep " Mar "|cut -c 55-99|grep -v "Mar"|xargs -p -i rm {}
Removing the "-p" purges everything that matches without prompting
first:
ls -ltr|grep " Mar "|cut -c 55-99|grep -v "Mar"|xargs -i rm {}
Our "ls -ltr" output looks like this:
-rw-rw-rw- 1 phantom users 654558 Mar 1 02:05 FILE1.DAT
-rw-rw-rw- 1 phantom users 638108 Mar 1 02:05 FILE2.DAT
-rw-rw-rw- 1 phantom users 7867810 Mar 1 02:14 FILE3.DAT
-rw-rw-rw- 1 phantom users 593882 Apr 1 02:04 FILE4.DAT
-rw-rw-rw- 1 phantom users 569765 Apr 1 02:04 FILE5.DAT
-rw-rw-rw- 1 phantom users 7814653 Apr 1 02:15 FILE6.DAT
The "grep -v" test makes sure that I don't purge a file name that
contains the 3-character month.
Hope this helps,
Tom Derwin
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/21/07 9:54 AM >>>
I have routines that parse through Unix files in a directory and remove
them based on age. If the number of files exceeds some limit I've not
been
able to narrow down, I get a response from the scripts that it can't do
the job because there's too many files in the directory.
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