Re: Selecting IFS files for deletion.

[Fritz Hayes <fhayes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thank Scott and Narayanan!

You just turned lots of ugliness into a few lines!  Just when I was 
having fun juggling dates in ILE!

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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