Re: oldest file

[Mat Harris <mat.harris@genestate.com>]

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yes but the problem with that is that the day could be of variable size and
I can't remove more than necessary so removing day 20 may be equivalent to
removing days 19-15

On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 08:37:55 -0800, Scott Taylor wrote:
> At 02:01 AM 2/06/03, Mat Harris wrote:
> >i am sure this has been asked before, but I can't find trace of it in any
> >archives.
> >
> >I need to find the oldest directory inside multiply subdirectories. Perhaps
> >I should explain...
> >
> >I have /home/cams/
> >inside that dir is four other dirs: cam1 cam2 cam3 cam4
> >inside each of those is a directory structure like: year/day-date/
> >
> >i want to run a script that searches for the oldest day in each cam
> >directory.
> 
> What happens if the oldest day is the only file and that file is today's?
> 
> Wouldn't you rather just remove all files older than X number of days?  You 
> could do this with the find command; find files changed 20 days ago and 
> more:
> find /home/cams/ -ctime +20 -exec rm -rf {} \;
> 
> for more info:
> man find
> 
> 
> 
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