hello, i'm trying to write a simple script that will delete all files that are seven days old on a daily basis. each time the script is run it will add one new file (format: 10-04-04.gz) to an ftp location. before the script adds a new file i want it to delete the file that was added 7 days ago. the point of all this is to have a history of at least 6 days at any given time. at this point i have managed to get the current timestamp from date with 'date +%s'. i can also subtract seven days worth of seconds (604,800) from that timestamp. but what i don't know how to do is feed the new timestamp back into 'date' and have it return a date formatted like %m-%d-%y. i don't think 'date' even supports what i want to do, but i can't find a command that does. any help would be appreciated. thanks, chris. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
