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Shell Command to remove older files
| Posted by xs-admin, 07-08-2012, 03:52 AM |
| Hello Guys,
I am making backups of a client's website on a remote FTP location. I have a script (usable without root access on cPanel) which is making backups on given cron and transfer it to remote ftp location. Now the real problem is starting; as we can't have unlimited gigabytes of disk space on any server so we have to limit the backups. I was finding shell command (which can be added to cronjob directly or by creating a bash script and call that script from cron. I want to keep 1 week's daily backups. I want to delete any backup from that directory which is older than 1 week. I found following command which looks promising
But when I ran this command (for testing I replaced 'rm' with 'ls -l') I got following error
can anybody help to resolve this little issue?
I am running CentOS + cPanel
Thank You
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| Posted by RoseHosting, 07-08-2012, 04:06 AM |
| You must place a space between the {} and the \;
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| Posted by xs-admin, 07-08-2012, 04:10 AM |
| Great. Thanks buddy.
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EDIT
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It's not locating the backup files. Only found .htaccess which I am using with .passwd. What changes it require to find following 2 types of backups and remove them without touching .htaccess
Last edited by xs-admin; 07-08-2012 at 04:17 AM.
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| Posted by foobic, 07-08-2012, 06:39 AM |
| You may not need the maxdepth but it can be useful to stop find going chasing off down subdirectories.
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| Posted by RRWH, 07-13-2012, 08:52 AM |
| I don't bother to remember the syntax - I just head to http://find.unixpin.com/ fill in the options I need and then copy the whole command I need.
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| Posted by kevincheri, 07-18-2012, 10:34 AM |
| nice URL to test our knowledge itself
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| Posted by JohnCrowley, 07-18-2012, 11:56 AM |
| Probably the coolest link I'll see all week. Thanks for the tip!
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