Re: Purging files in the IFS by date (aka which Scott Klement utility to use :)

Larry,

I found this message on the net....

cd to the directory in question so that you can use . in the find command,
then, for example,
find . \( ! -name . -prune \) -name \*.c -print

It seems to work, but I don't understand why *.c doesn't need to be quoted....

Also, it seems that this doesn't find recursively, but I'm not sure if
the shell isn't processing the wildcard....
find /mypath/*.txt

I need a better understanding of how shells and unix type utilities work! :)
Anybody know a good manual?

Thanks,
Charles




On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 8:44 AM, DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Charles,

  Sadly there IS a switch however it's not supported by find in PASE.
Worked through that myself just yesterday.

   - Larry

Dennis,

Is there a switch I'm not seeing to make find non-recursive?

Thanks,
Charles

On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Dennis Lovelady<iseries@xxxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:

What's the currently recommended way of purging IFS files by date?

I found an old utility from Scott Klement, that comes really close to
perfect.  The only issue is it purges everything in a given directory,
I'd like to be able to pass a wildcard file name.  I haven't look at
it in detail, but I suspect that modifying it to process file name
wildcards would be non-trivial.  Then again, perhaps not if I can find
an good example of comparing a wild card value to another string,
(regex perhaps? but might be overkill).

find /my_path -mtime ${PURGE_DAYS} -name "${WILDCARD_NAMES}" -exec rm {} \;

Dennis Lovelady
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