On 23:15 05 Jun 2002, Jesse Angell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| Here is my script
| #!/bin/sh
Note - this isn't bash - it's generic Bourne shell - works in bash, ksh, etc.
Always a worthy goal. It merely happens that /bin/sh is bash on most Linux
systems.
| cp $root/$instance/psdata/pserver.prefs $root/$instance/psdata/backup/pserver
| `date +%y%m%d`.prefs
|
| This script is ran daily. The one thing that I need to do is set it so after
| those are 5 days old the script deletes them. ( the backups) as it would become
| hectic after a few months.
| How do I have it delete the files that are 5 days old?
find $root/$instance/psdata/backup/pserver????????.prefs -mtime + 5 -exec rm {} ';'
Someone may mention xargs, but there's no gain here.
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Cameron Simpson, DoD#743 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/
You can't always get what you want. - The Rolling Stones
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