deleting files older than 2 days
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Original Message
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Name: anukta_c
Date: December 24, 2002 at 04:31:01 Pacific
Subject: deleting files older than 2 days
OS: HP-UX
CPU/Ram: -
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Comment:
Hi,
I want to delete files which had been created 2 days ago having names like:
er_n5412_output_yyyymmdd.csv.processd
from the directory /opt/apps/ccba/dev/callftp/cps_adhoc.
There will be several other files in the same directory which I would not want to delete. There might be files having names like er_n5412_output_yyyymmdd.csv, these I will not want to delete. I want to write a script to do this. I know this can be done with find command, but I cannot get the syntax right.Also, is it possible to explicitly mention the path and the file name matching pattern? Can anyone help? -Anukta
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Response Number 1
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Name: Sun
Date: December 24, 2002 at 08:17:08 Pacific
Subject: deleting files older than 2 days |
Reply: (edit)find /-name er_n5412_output_yyyymmdd.csv.* \
-atime 2 -exec rm {} \;
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Response Number 2
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Name: anukta_c
Date: December 27, 2002 at 02:01:12 Pacific
Subject: deleting files older than 2 days
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Reply: (edit)
Thanks, but it is not working with the '*' in there. When I mention the exact file name, it works, but pattern matching did not work.
Any other ideas?
-Anukta
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Response Number 3
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Name: David Perry
Date: December 27, 2002 at 08:16:28 Pacific
Subject: deleting files older than 2 days |
Reply: (edit)Some systems require pattern matching in find to be quoted with either single or double quotes. Try find / \
-name 'er_n5412_output_yyyymmdd.csv.*' \
-atime 2 -exec rm {} \;
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