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Joseluis Vanta
Joseluis Vanta

Reputation: 31

Detect if a file was created with todays date and then remove older files

I have a script which deletes files older than +2 days in a specific Directory. I would like to check if there is a file with todays date created before removing the older files. This is what I have:

#!/bin/bash

find /var/backups/server1 -type f -mtime +2 -exec rm {} \;
find /var/backups/server2 -type f -mtime +2 -exec rm {} \;
find /var/backups/server3 -type f -mtime +2 -exec rm {} \;
find /var/backups/server4 -type f -mtime +2 -exec rm {} \;
find /var/backups/server5 -type f -mtime +2 -exec rm {} \;

So Basically: 1.Check Directory with file with todays date. 2.If affirmative find /var/backups/serverX -type f -mtime +2 -exec rm {} \; 3.If not "execute scriptX" (which maybe a mail notification)

thanks!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 201

Answers (1)

sjsam
sjsam

Reputation: 21955

You could do something like this

find /var/backups/ -maxdepth 1 -type d  -print0 | while read -rd '' dirname 
do
arry=( $(find "${dirname}" -type f -atime 0) )
#Checks if there is a file that is updated today.
[ "${#arry[@]}" -ge 1 ] && find "${dirname}" -type f -mtime +2 -exec rm {} \;
done

Upvotes: 1

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