[bvijaycom]

Hi,

I am trying to prepare the script which should delete 2 days older directories.

For files i already prepared the scripts and working fine.
Here i have given the file log rotation script details which is working..

bash-3.00# more /scripts/logrotation.sh
find /iims-home/data/uat1/batch/logs/batch/ -name "*.*" -mtime +1 -exec /bin/rm {} \;
find /iims-home/data/dev/batch/logs/batch/ -name "*.*" -mtime +1 -exec /bin/rm {} \;
find /iims-home/data/sit/batch/logs/batch/ -name "*.*" -mtime +1 -exec /bin/rm {} \;
find /iims-home/data/uat2/batch/logs/batch -name "*.*" -mtime +1 -exec /bin/rm {} \;
find /iims-home/data/pt/batch/logs/batch/ -name "*.*" -mtime +1 -exec /bin/rm {} \;


But i dont know how delete the directory like this (if i delete the online directory,all sub-directories also should be deleted.)
Here i have given my deployment directories.

bash-3.00# ls -ltr
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 3 iims iims 256 May 13 09:53 online_20080510142957
drwxr-xr-x 7 iims iims 256 May 16 10:24 batch
drwxr-xr-x 9 iims iims 256 May 16 10:27 online_20080516112121
drwxr-xr-x 3 iims iims 256 May 16 11:04 online_20080516102749
drwxr-xr-x 9 iims iims 256 May 16 11:21 online
bash-3.00#


Can anybody please help me on this

[PaulClayton]

have you used "rm -rf"

[john.samons]

You could use the following:

ls -1 /your-path/online_* | while read onlinedir
do
echo $onlinedir #test with this first...
#rm -rif $onlinedir
done

[duke900ssd]

Check on a test directory before you deploy your script, what happens if it ends up in the wrong directory!
Imagine the nightmare scenario:
script:
cd some dir
Message, dir not found.
cd another dir/another dir / etc / etc.
Message, dir not found.
rm -R *
deleting -R /
root filesystem successfully dele......crash, no more system!

[ross.mather]

personally, for the rason duke900ssd lists I am opposed to using rm -r type commands in any cron jobs.

Delete the files in the reqired directory explicitly and then rmdir the directory. Its more work - but a lot safer.

Test the script using mv to an alternate location for a few weeks first.

[john.samons]

I agree, test your scripts and execute them safely...


...don't drink & script... at least DON'T run them at that time.... :-)