topic Re: Script to move old files in Operating System - HP-UX

Script to move old files

2ne1 — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 06:32:25 GMT

I am not too familiar with script , if I want to do the housekeeping in a path as below , can advise what can I do ? Thanks

1) move the files ( /tmp ) elder than 90 days to a specfic path ( /tmp/bak )

2) remove the files elder than 180 days and gzip these remove files in /tmp/bak .

Dennis Handly — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 22:31:16 GMT

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>1) move the files (/tmp) older than 90 days to a specific path (/tmp/bak)

find /tmp -mtime +90 -exec mv {} /tmp/bak \;

(If you want to use "-exec ... +, you'll need to write a script that reverse the parms to mv(1).)

2ne1 — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 07:48:58 GMT

Thx reply,

The command you provided is for request 1 , can advise if I would like to do the thing as point 2 , what can i do ? thx

Dennis Handly — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 12:17:51 GMT

>The command you provided is for request 1, can advise if I would like to do the thing as point 2, what can I do?

The idea was that you would figure 2) out from the solution to 1).

find /tmp -mtime +180 -type f | while read filename; do

gzip -c "$file" > "/tmp/bak/$file.gz"

if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then

rm -f "$file"

else

echo "Problem gzipping $file" 1>&2

done

If /tmp has subdirectories, there'll be problems.