Re: Selecting IFS files for deletion.

[Scott Klement <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I didn't test this, but it should be fairly close.  It deletes all files 
that haven't been accessed in 60 days (change -atime to -mtime if you want 
files that haven't been modified)

STRQSH CMD('find /my/dir -atime +60 -exec {} \;')

Or, you could do it this way... it runs faster, but is limited in the 
amount of files it can handle at once:

STRQSH CMD('find /my/dir -atime +60 | xargs rm')

Is calling QShell in this manner elegant?  It depends on your point of 
view. It certainly is easy. Error handling isn't good, however. It 
requires QShel.  Probably doesn't perform very well (especially the first 
option I listed).

But, it's a lot easier than writing a tool that uses the APIs to do the 
same thing.  (And then when you do write such a tool, someone else posts 
the QShell method and gets all the credit and gets told that his solution 
is better than the one that I worked hard to provide.)

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Scott Klement  http://www.scottklement.com


On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, Fritz Hayes wrote:
> OK, so this will combine 2 of the last topices
>
> Here my challenge with IFS files.  I'd like to select all files in an
> IFS directory that are older than 60 days from today.  Once selected,
> delete them.  My CL is very ugly at this time.  (No I won't show it!)
>
> What's an elegant way of doing this?