[ale] bash script

Geoffrey lists at serioustechnology.com
Tue Sep 11 10:51:33 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:

Is there any reason you don't simply do this:

BASE=/var/www/zm/events

/usr/bin/find $BASE/[123569] $BASE/1[0-5] ! -name "*.log" -mtime 5 
-print | /sbin/rm -Rf $1"

???

> 
> 
> 
> #! /bin/sh
> 
> ## 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"
> 
> 
> 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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