rm -rf `find /archive/backup/sql* -ctime -4`
find /archive/backup/sql* -ctime -4 -print | xargs rm -rf
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> you can probably use the find command, to find files that are
> older than
> 4 days. Use the -exec option to remove the file.
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> 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
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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
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