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Subject: Re: Using sql to delete files in a lib?
From: Jack Woehr <jwoehr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2021 09:27:46 -0600
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On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 9:21 AM frank boke <fboxxx1958@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Ok, how about the qsh version of the command? I use something like to
delete from the ifs;
STRQSH CMD('FIND /ARCHIVE -type f -mtime +30 -exec rm +
{} \;')

...but how would I delete the files using qsh based on either 30 days after
create date or files that were created on 9/2/21?

You'd write a shell script, probably.

It will do date math from the current time and deletes based on comparison.

Some bash wizard can probably blurt out a one-liner that amounts to that
script.

Or you can write a Python script. If you use QSH to launch shell commands,
you could get used to Python scripting. It's easy and powerful.

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