From: bwalton@artsci.utoronto.ca (Ben Walton)
Subject: [sup-talk] Backups ?
Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2009 12:10:42 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1246982848-sup-5820@ntdws12.chass.utoronto.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090707112635.14736pk1mxi8r9k4@webmail.seas.upenn.edu>
Excerpts from wagnerdm's message of Tue Jul 07 11:26:35 -0400 2009:
> > ls -1t "$dump_dir"/sup-dumps-* | { read; read; read; read; cat } | xargs rm
>
> "{ read; read; read; read; cat }" could probably better be done as
> "tail +5"; makes it easier to adjust to people's choice of backup
Or:
DAYS=5
find $dump_dir -mtime +${DAYS} -name "*sup-dumps-*" -print0 | xargs -0 --no-run-if-empty rm
(adjust xargs options to suit your environment...I don't think
--no-run-if-empty is all that portable.)
-Ben
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-07 16:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-07 13:08 Marc Weber
2009-07-07 15:26 ` wagnerdm at seas.upenn.edu
2009-07-07 16:10 ` Ben Walton [this message]
2009-07-07 16:19 ` Ingmar Vanhassel
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