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Shell Script find command problem

Zone: IBM AIX Unix

How do i delete files that are 4 hrs old using find command? we are using AIX so -mmin will not work. -mtime can work. How can i do that?

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Question Asked By: Micheal_Male

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04.09.2008 at 07:33PM PDT, ID: 21321222

Micheal_Male:

Actually this is the directory where my script is going to run :-

cd /home/'sam

Under sam i have like 50 different folders. Each of that folder contains a folder by the name of "testing" and under testing folder there are different files like .txt or .csv or etc..
So this is what i am doing. The code works but it deletes the recently created files. I want to delete the files which are 6 hrs old.

                       
             for dir in *; do 
  if [ -d ${dir}/"testing" ]; then 
  find /home/sam/${dir}/* -type f -mtime -1 -exec 'rm' {} \; 
  fi 
  done

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04.09.2008 at 07:40PM PDT, ID: 21321243

Rank: Master

omarfarid:

You need to use gnu find:

ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/findutils/

04.10.2008 at 07:25AM PDT, ID: 21325120

dongjinkim:

I'm no AIX expert, but it seems that the AIX version I'm using supports the -mmin option for find.
I'm running AIX 3.5 in a bash shell.

In any case, a workaround is to use the -newer option (if your find command supports this).

1. Create a file with the desired time stamp using the touch command.

2. Find files older than the file by using the following syntax:
find . ! -newer temp_file ....

04.10.2008 at 06:46PM PDT, ID: 21330889

Micheal_Male:

Actually i did not applied the solution you provided. But i was able to work my way around. Anyways i have one question. What i am trying to do over here is use a for loop first see for the directories which contains " test " folder. If the folder contains test folder then create the same directory structure on other remote machine. If any of that directory is not created then mail to appropriate person.

Same thing goes for scp and chmod also. this is what i am doing right now but everytime i run my script i get "done " expected. Can anyone look into it ?

Thanks

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              LOG_FILE_DIR="/home/mike/" 
   LOCAL_LOG_FILE=$LOG_FILE_DIR/"server_`date +%m%d%Y`.log" 
   SENDMAIL=0 
   MAIL_FILE=tmp.txt 
   REMOTE_DIR="/home/john" 
 
   for dir in /home/mike; do 
 
   if [ -d ${dir}/"test" ]; then 
   /usr/local/bin/ssh -l melo ferrari "mkdir -m 777  $REMOTE_DIR/$dir" >>$LOCAL_LOG_FILE 2>&1 
   if [ $? != 0 ]; then 
   SENDMAIL=1 
   echo "Cannot create directory $dir " >> MAIL_FILE 
   fi 
 
   scp -r ${dir}/"test" ferrari:$REMOTE_DIR/${dir}/ 
   if [ $? != 0 ]; then 
   SENDMAIL=1 
   echo "Cannot create directory $dir " >> MAIL_FILE 
   fi   
 
   /usr/local/bin/ssh -l melo ferrari "chmod -R 777 $REMOTE_DIR/$dir" 
   if [ $? != 0 ]; then 
   SENDMAIL=1 
   echo "Cannot change the chmod for $dir " >> MAIL_FILE 
   fi 
 
   fi
   done 
 
  mail -s "micheal_male@hotmail.com" < MAIL_FILE 
 
  exit 0

           
         

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Accepted Solution

dongjinkim

04.25.2008 at 07:28AM PDT, ID: 21439904

In the future I think it would be more helpful to post different questions in their own threads as opposed to continuing to keep the original question open.
In this way, you will get better responses, and those who submitted correct responses for previous solutions are properly rewarded.
I also feel that posts that are accepted as solutions should explain how the original question was resolved, as this will benefit other users who may come across the same problem.

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