> -----Original Message----- > From: shrike-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:shrike-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John Colville > Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 1:21 AM > To: shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Scripting Question > > > Jake McHenry wrote: > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: shrike-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx > > > [mailto:shrike-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Stephen Mah > > > Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 7:49 PM > > > To: shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > > Subject: Re: Scripting Question > > > > > > > > > you can probably use the find command, to find files that > are older > > > than 4 days. Use the -exec option to remove the file. > > > > > > Jake McHenry wrote: > > > > Hi everyone, > > > > > > > > I made up a script that backs up my mysql database into a > > > compressed > > > > file. What I want to do now it make it only keep the > last 4 days, > > > > anything older than that it will delete, basically the > same thing > > > > logrotate does. > > > > > > > > Is there a way for me to do this in a bash script? > > > > > > > > The files are named: sql_10142003.sql.gz > > > > > > > > Jake McHenry > > > > Nittany Travel MIS Coordinator http://www.nittanytravel.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Shrike-list mailing list > > > Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike> -list > > > > > > > Something like this? > > > > find /archive/backup/sql* -mtime 4 -exec rm -f -r > > > > That gives me an error: find: missing argument to `-exec' > > > > The man page isn't very good on find. It helped a lot, but > some of the > > stuff is kinda fuzzy. > > > > Jake > > > > You need to add '{} \;' to the above to make it work I think. > i.e. > > find /archive/backup/sql* -mtime 4 -exec rm -f -r {} \; > > Cheers, > > John > > > > > -- > > Shrike-list mailing list > > Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list > > > -- > Shrike-list mailing list > Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list > Oh is that what they are? The fonts aren't displaying right in my man pages, I have this for the characters: -exec command ; Execute command; true if 0 status is returned. All following arguments to find are taken to be arguments to the command until an argument consisting of �;’ is encountered. The string �{}’ is replaced by the current file name being processed everywhere it occurs in the arguments to the command, not just in arguments where it is alone, as in some versions of find. Both of these constructions might need to be escaped (with a �\’) or quoted to protect them from expansion by the shell. The command is exe- cuted in the starting directory. It doesn't look that bad on here.. But on the console.. It's worse than that.. Thanks for your help, Jake -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
