Oracle-L: RE: unix question

From: Smith, Ron L. <rlsmith_at_kmg.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 13:50:12 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.005D7316.20031119135012@fatcity.com>

The following statement will delete all files older than 5 days:

find . -name 'files_you_want_to_delete*.log' -mtime +5 -exec rm {} \;

To test it, change the name of the file name and change the 'rm' to 'ls'.
It should just list the files older than 5 days. That way you know it is working.

Ron Smith

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Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 3:10 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

USE WITH CARE.USE WITH CARE.USE WITH CARE.USE WITH CARE.USE WITH CARE.USE WITH CARE.USE WITH CARE. COUNT=`ls -lrt <dir>/<name>|wc -l`
if [ $COUNT -ge 4 ] ;
then

find <dir> -name <name> -mtime +4 -exec rm -f {} \; fi

USE WITH CARE.USE WITH CARE.USE WITH CARE.USE WITH CARE.USE WITH CARE.USE WITH CARE.USE WITH CARE. HTH,
Bambi.
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Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 2:21 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

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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