topic Re: delete in Operating System - HP-UX

delete

Indrajit Bhagat — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 05:53:30 GMT

can you help me in a command to delete the file of Aug 31.
-rw-r--r-- 1 porabat prod 1004 Aug 31 07:40 IFCHAPSIN1070831072920310807074046.dat.Z
-rw-r--r-- 1 porabat prod 1695 Aug 31 07:41 IFCHAPSIN1070831070023310807074105.dat.Z
-rw-r--r-- 1 porabat prod 5095 Aug 31 07:41 IFCHAPSIN1070831062919310807074118.dat.Z
-rw-r--r-- 1 porabat prod 109 Aug 31 07:41 CHAPSIn_Error31AUG2007074117.csv.Z
-rw-r--r-- 1 porabat prod 109 Aug 31 07:41 CHAPSIn_Error31AUG2007074103.csv.Z
-rw-r--r-- 1 porabat prod 109 Aug 31 07:41 CHAPSIn_Error31AUG2007074134.csv.Z
-rw-r--r-- 1 porabat prod 1084 Aug 31 08:11 IFCHAPSIN1070831080002310807081111.dat.Z

Re: delete

Pete Randall — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 06:15:09 GMT

for FILE in `ll |grep "Aug31" |awk '{ print $9 }'`
do
rm $FILE
done

You might want to test by replacing "rm" with "ll" first.

Pete

Re: delete

Laurent Menase — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 06:18:38 GMT

ls -l | while read a b c d e f g h i
do
if [ ! -f $i ]
then
continue
fi
if [ "$f" != "Aug" -o "$g" != "31" ]
then
continue
fi
echo "# $(ls -l $i)"
echo "rm $i"
done > myfiletoexecute

check the myfiletoexecute, if it looks ok
sh myfiletoexecute

Re: delete

MarkSyder — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 06:37:09 GMT

Pete's suggestion is what I would use, except you appear to have more than one file dated 31 Aug. Your question implies that you only want to delete one file, so I would use rm -i so you will be asked to confirm deletion.

Mark Syder (like the drink but spelt different)

Re: delete

Pete Randall — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 10:18:39 GMT

Mark makes a good point concerning how many files are to be deleted. My answer assumes that all files dated Aug 31 are to be deleted. If that is not what was intended, then the question needs to be re-stated.

Pete

Re: delete

Arturo Galbiati — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 04:35:35 GMT

rm $(ls -l |awk '/ Aug / {print $9}')
use rm -i if you want to confirm each signle file.
HTH,
Art