basic script (for you guys anyway!)

[Nik_1]

Hi,

I have a list of .dbf files in a directory, that I would like to 'gzip' up, depending on their date.

At the moment I run:

for i in `ls -1 |grep _1`
do
gzip $i
done


This will zip any files with _1 in the name.

I would like to keep the last 7 days files, so need to use the find command I guess, with -mtime to search for files greater than 10days (ignoring the . & .. entries, and the one .conf file in the list) and gzip them, then maybe report what it's done to an email address... only if it's had to gzip something... if no work had to be done.. no email is sent.

thanks eveyone..

Nik
btw: I'm still working on it now... but I'm sure someone will have a clever 2 liner that'll do it in half the time!

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Nik:

You are on the right track, keep scripting!

Regards!

...JRF...

[David Burgess · Accepted solution]

Nik,

This should help you on your way

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#delete .dbf files over 7 days old

find . -name "*.dbf" -mtime +7 -exec rm -f {} \;
test -f *.dbf

#if .dbf files exist gzip them and mail dir listing to a user

if [[ $? = 0 ]]
then
for i in $(ls -1 *.dbf)
do
gzip $i
done
ls -la /directory | mailx -s "files are" username@domain.com
fi

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Regards,

Dave.

[David Burgess]

Sorry comment is in the wrong place.

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#delete .dbf files over 7 days old

find . -name "*.dbf" -mtime +7 -exec rm -f {} \;

#if .dbf files exist gzip them and mail dir listing to a user

test -f *.dbf

if [[ $? = 0 ]]
then
for i in $(ls -1 *.dbf)
do
gzip $i
done
ls -la /directory | mailx -s "files are" username@domain.com
fi

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Regards,

Dave.

[Nik_1]

Thanks David... have assigned points as appropriate.

James: thanks for the motivational reply! I would assign points, but 20,000(!) I figure you have enough already! :)