Shell Script :- Compress files older than 3 days

[sinhass]

Hi,

Could anyone pls help me to write a script which will run everyday and compress all the files which are 3 days old(created) in three different directories.

With thanks & regards

-sinhass

[Con O'Kelly]

Hi

Use the find command in a script.

find / -path "//*" -prune -type f -mtime +3 -exec gzip {} \;

This will ensure you only find files in the directory specified not in any subdirectories.

Cheers
Con

[Indira Aramandla]

Hi,

You could also do this to compress files older than 3 days.

cd to the directory
find . -name "file_name" -mtime +3 -exec compress {} \;


IA

[sinhass]

I ran those scripts earlier but one of my colleague told that if someone modify any of the files then the script will not recognise that file. He wants to compress all the files created three days back irrespective of modification/access time(mtime/atime/ctime).

[Michael Selvesteen_2]

Hi Sinhass,

Use any of the suggestion to compress file older than 3 days by incorporating the command in the script. Use cron to schedule the script to run every 3 days.

For more about cron please refer the following link

http://www.unixgeeks.org/security/newbie/unix/cron-1.html

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M

[Kent Ostby]

sinhass --

The problem is that hp-ux does not track a "create" date.

It tracks an access, modify, and change date but not a creation date so if you have to use creation date, the script would have to keep track via diffed lls of the files that were now in the directory.

[Steve Steel]

Hi


http://www.shelldorado.com/


Will explain this to you that indeed you cannot find easily on a create date


If someone is using the file you do not want to compress it anyway


Find with -mtime +3 is the safest way to go


If I create a file and after 2 days zeroise it and put new contents it becomes to me new and not 2 days old


Steve Steel

[sinhass]

Thanks everybody for your time and help specially Steve & Michael for referring these two fantastic sites.

-Sinhass