Re: unix question

How about something like

dir=foo
if [ `ls -1 $dir` -lt 4 ]; then
  find $dir -mtime +4 | xargs rm
fi

On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 15:20, ryan_oracle_at_cox.net wrote:
> I want to store some files. I make a new copy every night. I want to archive it back 4 days. So after 4 days, I want to delete the old copy. How do I do this?
>
> However, if i miss a nightly batch and have less than 4 copies, I do not want to delete any?
>
>
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Richard Quintin, DBA
Information Systems & Computing, DBMS
Virginia Tech

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