[ale] bash script

David Tomaschik ozone at webgroup.org
Tue Sep 11 10:41:22 EDT 2007


Marvin, International Martian of Mystery wrote:
> I'd like some feedback/critique for a script I'm running as a cron job
> daily on a box I administrate.  It's supposed to delete all the files it
> finds that are 5 days or older.  
>
> This is what I've come up with:
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> #! /bin/sh
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> ## Remove ZoneMinder events cache
> ## There's gotta be a better way  to
> ## do this!
>
> EXECUTE="/usr/bin/find ./ ! -name "*.log" -mtime 5  -print | /sbin/rm
> -Rf $1"
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> cd /var/www/zm/events/1
>         $EXECUTE
> cd /var/www/zm/events/2
>         $EXECUTE
> cd /var/www/zm/events/3
>         $EXECUTE
> cd /var/www/zm/events/5
>         $EXECUTE
> cd /var/www/zm/events/6
>         $EXECUTE
> cd /var/www/zm/events/9
>         $EXECUTE
> cd /var/www/zm/events/10
>         $EXECUTE
> cd /var/www/zm/events/11
>         $EXECUTE
> cd /var/www/zm/events/12
>         $EXECUTE
> cd /var/www/zm/events/13
>         $EXECUTE
> cd /var/www/zm/events/14
>         $EXECUTE
> cd /var/www/zm/events/15
>         $EXECUTE
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Are 4, 7, and 8 intentionally omitted?  If not, why not something like:

for i in `seq 1 15` ; do cd /var/www/zm/events/$i ; $EXECUTE ; done

David



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