"Find " command andshell scripting
hi,
I recently tried to write a shell script that looks in a directory and deletes all files matching a certain pattern which are more than 45 days old.
I used the "find" command. the problem is that the find command recursively searches all the subdirectories present. I NEED TO RESTRICT THIS AND ENSURE THAT THE SEARCH IS RESTRICTED TO THE SPECIFIED DIRECTORY ONLY.
the script is as follows:
for file in `find . -mtime +15 -print`
do
if [ -f $file ]
then
echo "Removing $file that existed more than 15 days."
rm $file
#use mv command to some temp dir for testing
fi
done.
I am on a solaris 5.6 machine and need help that will work on that version. I tried other commands such as locate and glimpse but the ksh does not seem to recognze tham at all. Also there is man page entry for these commands.
In solaris, the find command comes with an option called -depth that restricts the depth of the search but i am not able to work it. The man pages abt this option says:
-depth : Always true; causes descent of the directory
hierarchy to be done so that all entries in a
directory are acted on before the directory
itself. This can be useful when find is used
does anyone know how to work this?
Also, the man page mentions that the depth is determined by an environment variable PATH_MAX. I am not able toset this variable. The man page for that says:
find will be able to descend to arbitrary depths in a file hierarchy and will not fail due to path length limitations (unless a path operand specified by the application exceeds PATH_MAX requirements).
Can someone tell me how to restrict this?
I would appreciate it if you could cc a copy to my mail id :[email protected] as i have a lot of trouble accessing the net
Regards,
Sailesh
hi
i got a way but why dont you break it in to two scripts first script will search for the file path and redirects in to a file and then when its search is end start the removing your file by grep the file path from that file i think its simple
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main()
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