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

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).

http://systeminetwork.com/article/purge-ifs-files-without-qshell

I also found some examples where Scott is using the QSHELL find
command to an output file to purge.

This post is related to my other post regarding "Calling CL program to
delete .ZIP file in IFS as part of an SQL Delete"

As I discussed the issue with the other developer, we realized that
there's no benefit to tying the purge of the .ZIP files in the IFS
with the records deleted the DB table. So we've decided that the best
thing would be to have a nice generic PURGEIFSF command that we could
uses anywhere...

Thus this question. :)

Thanks in advance!
Charles
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