Re: Selecting IFS files for deletion.

Thank Scott and Narayanan!

Fritz Hayes

Scott Klement wrote:

I didn't test this, but it should be fairly close. It deletes all files that haven't been accessed in 60 days (change -atime to -mtime if you want files that haven't been modified)

STRQSH CMD('find /my/dir -atime +60 -exec {} \;')

Or, you could do it this way... it runs faster, but is limited in the amount of files it can handle at once:

STRQSH CMD('find /my/dir -atime +60 | xargs rm')

Is calling QShell in this manner elegant? It depends on your point of view. It certainly is easy. Error handling isn't good, however. It requires QShel. Probably doesn't perform very well (especially the first option I listed).

But, it's a lot easier than writing a tool that uses the APIs to do the same thing. (And then when you do write such a tool, someone else posts the QShell method and gets all the credit and gets told that his solution is better than the one that I worked hard to provide.)

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