topic Re: how delete files before date in Operating System - OpenVMS

how delete files before date

Luciano Quaglia — Mon, 14 May 2007 09:42:53 GMT

I've to create a dcl procedure (so I can schedule it) in order to delete files in a directory, but delete only files older than 15 days ago.

How can I delete files in a directory older than "15 days" before today ?

best regards,
any help would be appreciated !
Luciano

Re: how delete files before date

Ian Miller. — Mon, 14 May 2007 09:59:48 GMT

$ DELETE/BEFORE="TODAY-15-00:00"/LOG/NOCONFIRM filename

should do it.

Re: how delete files before date

atul sardana — Mon, 14 May 2007 10:12:40 GMT

For example delete the .OBJ files in subdirectory of testfiles

$ DELETE/NOCONFIRM/SINCE=Time[MEIER.TESTFILES]*.OBJ;*

You can specify time as absolute time, as a combination of absolute and delta times, or as one of the following keywords:BOOT, LOGIN, TODAY (default), TOMORROW, or YESTERDAY. Specify one of the following qualifiers with the /SINCE qualifier to indicate the time attribute to be used as the basis for selection.

Re: how delete files before date

atul sardana — Mon, 14 May 2007 10:15:17 GMT

Absolute time includes a specific date or time of day. An absolute date/time has one of the following formats:

dd-mmm-yyyy
hh:mm:ss.cc
dd-mmm-yyyy:hh:mm:ss.cc
"dd-mmm-yyyy hh:mm:ss.cc"
BOOT
LOGIN
TODAY
TOMORROW
YESTERDAY
You can omit any of the trailing fields in the date or time. You can omit any of the fields in the middle of the format as long as you specify the punctuation marks, for example, "-mmm-yyyy hh".

Atul sardana

Re: how delete files before date

Dean McGorrill — Mon, 14 May 2007 15:15:10 GMT

I used to use purge like..

$ purge/before="TODAY-15-00:00"

..keeps at least one version around.

Re: how delete files before date

Robert Gezelter — Mon, 14 May 2007 15:52:51 GMT

Luciano,

The TODAY can also be implicit, as in:

$ DELETE/LOG/BEFORE=-15-00:00:00 or
$ DELETE/LOG/BEFORE=-15-0

- Bob Gezelter, http://www.rlgsc.com

Re: how delete files before date

Luciano Quaglia — Mon, 14 May 2007 16:23:44 GMT

thx about your response. very helpful.