Robert Moskowitz wrote:
I am consolidating a lot of files. I have archives of Internet drafts,
from over the years.
I just pulled down all the current Internet Drafts.
I want to mv all my other stored IDs to this current directory ONLY if,
they are larger.
You may be aware that when a draft is expired, a small file is left in
the directory for some time with content like:
"This Internet-Draft has been deleted. Unrevised documents placed in the
Internet-Drafts directories have a maximum life of six months. After
that time, they are deleted. This Internet-Draft was not published as
an RFC. "
If I have the actual draft, I would like it to replace this little tab.
But if the draft is still available, then my old archive will tend to
have a newer date, as I use to grab IDs via FTP which would date my copy
the date I grabbed them. I built my current directory with wget with
the -m option, which perserves the original file's date...
I would even be willing to do this with Nautilus, but so far it just
tells me the file exists in the target directory and do I want to
replace it...
Thanks for any help you can provide...
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Just had a 'nasty' thought. By using mget -m to maintain my IDs
directory, all my efforts would be for naught, as the deleted message
file will have a newer date than my copy of the original draft and
overwrite it.
Crude.
Got to think some more on this......
find <someplace> -type f -print |\
xargs grep -l "This Internet-Draft has been deleted" \
| xargs rm
Keep known good while you practice.
Perl has a function to return a file's size, so a little perl may be useful.
Stat makes reports like this:
[summer@bilby ~]$ stat .bash_history
File: `.bash_history'
Size: 321324 Blocks: 648 IO Block: 4096 regular file
Device: 303h/771d Inode: 87460 Links: 1
Access: (0664/-rw-rw-r--) Uid: ( 1000/ summer) Gid: ( 1000/ summer)
Access: 2007-03-28 07:06:59.000000000 +0800
Modify: 2007-03-27 21:02:15.000000000 +0800
Change: 2007-03-27 21:02:15.000000000 +0800
[summer@bilby ~]$
One can get the number with a little awk:
[summer@bilby ~]$ stat .bash_history | awk '/Size/ {print $2}'
321324
[summer@bilby ~]$
(but this is better:-)
[summer@bilby ~]$ stat -c '%s' .bash_history
321324
[summer@bilby ~]$
and do it all in sh.
--
Cheers
John
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