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

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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