Re: Deleting files from O/S older than 6 hours
- From: Carel-Jan Engel <careljan@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: nigel_cl_thomas@xxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:10:02 +0100
On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 02:56 -0800, Nigel Thomas wrote:
> Another trick is to create or touch a marker file at the time you do
> the move, which you can use "next time" to tell you the O/S time to
> compare with:
>
>
> find files newer than marker file (see earlier post)
> move them / delete them / archive them
> touch marker file now
>
>
> The only small issue is what happens to files added between 1 and 3
> (as the operations aren't exactly ACID)
That's why I do:
touch temporary marker file
find files newer than marker file
do with them what you like
move temporary marker file over marker_file
But this is getting much of a unix-shell thread now...
Jared won the contest, with his perl script.
Best regards,
Carel-Jan Engel
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