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removing files / match criteria

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Name: H3001
Date: June 24, 2007 at 04:18:38 Pacific
Subject: removing files / match criteria
OS: AIX5.2
CPU/Ram: PowerPC/1024
Model/Manufacturer: IBM-44p

Comment:

Hi all,
I'm spendind hours trying to figure out how a script could remove files that are older than 30 days, matching some criteria in their names, in a specific volume and within different user folders. I'm thinking if calling all the user folders with a name starting with "RC-user..", so the removal script could skip the files and folders staring with this naming convention.
Any help is more than welcome !
Cheers,
H.

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Response Number 1

Name: nails
Date: June 25, 2007 at 10:43:55 Pacific
Subject: removing files / match criteria

Reply: (edit)

Have you considered the find command? It has an -mtime option for finding files greater than "X" number of days.
Check out this miscellaneous find article:
http://www.unixreview.com/documents...
It describes how to ignore directories with find.

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