RE: Purge IFS files tool

["Haas, Matt" <Matt.Haas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Aaron,

You can do this with QShell. Here's an example:

find -x /somedir -type f -name *.pdf -mtime +180 -exec rm {};

What this does is find anyfile in directory /somedir that ends in .pdf and was 
created at least 180 days ago. When it finds a match on the file, it executes 
the rm command passing in the file name (which is represented by {}).

I don't recurse sub-directories when I run a similar command, but you should be 
able to do that by adding the R flag to the find command (-xR instead of -x).

WARNING!!! If you run this starting at '/', you could do some serious harm to 
your system. To the best of my knowledge, it will happily churn through every 
directory in the IFS including the ones that mount remote file systems (which 
could make you a very popular person if you delete too much).

Matt

-----Original Message-----
From: Bartell, Aaron L. (TC) [mailto:ALBartell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 4:47 PM
To: 'RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries'
Subject: Purge IFS files tool


Does anyone have a tool that purges files out of the IFS based on date
created, extension, and file name?

I am finding that I have quite the mess in the IFS (thousands of files) and
I need an intuitive way to clean them up programmatically.

Thanks,
Aaron Bartell
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