-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 12/07/06 12:16, Nate Bargmann wrote: > Since there is a lot of knowledge on this list, I thought I'd aske > here. > > This may be trivial, but I'm not even sure how to search for what I > want to do. > > I have a directory of files that are created daily using > filename-`date +%Y%m%d`.tar.gz so I have a directory with files whose > names advance from filename-20061201.tar.gz to filename-20061202.tar.gz > to filename-20061203.tar.gz and so on. Based on the date in the > filename, I would like to delete any than are X days older than today's > date. So, I'm not interested in the actual created/modified date, just > the numeric string in the name. > > Despite working in Bash for the past ten years or so, my shell > scripting skills are poor. Logically, this seems like a simple test of > whether the name is older than the current day - X, but I'm having > trouble putting this into a script.
A little Perl or Python script would work. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is "common sense" really valid? For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins are mud people. However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFeGDkS9HxQb37XmcRAnX6AKDrsjGkjg9CGmwo/kKYdfkwNb4bnQCgrwT+ kUq8Z+RqAYVDdwGBU32KAtI= =sOXa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
