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#1
Senior Member
Registered: May 2007
Location: Sydney
Distribution: RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu, Debian, OS X
Posts: 1,305
Rep:
tmpwatch to delete only particular files
Dear All,
I am sitting on CentOS 5.4 servers.
I am looking out to a way to delete only particular files, for example /tmp/vmware-root/apploader-*.log (here * is some random numbers) from /tmp through
tmpwatch command.
Below command does the my task but includes
some other files too.
Code:
root@box2:/tmp# tmpwatch --mtime +7 --nodirs /tmp --test
removing file /tmp/vmware-root/apploader-6166.log
removing file /tmp/vmware-root/apploader-3409.log
removing file /tmp/vmware-root/apploader-3520.log
removing file /tmp/vmware-root/apploader-6135.log
removing file /tmp/vmware-root/apploader-3374.log
removing file /tmp/vmware-root/apploader-3394.log
removing file /tmp/vmware-root/apploader-6292.log
removing file /tmp/vmware-root/modconfig-6261.log
removing file /tmp/vmware-root/apploader-6229.log
removing file /tmp/vmware-root/apploader-7832.log
removing file /tmp/vmware-root/apploader-6102.log
removing file /tmp/vmware-root/apploader-3364.log
removing file /tmp/vmware-root/apploader-7720.log
removing file /tmp/vmware-root/apploader-6198.log
removing file /tmp/vmware-root/apploader-6261.log
removing file /tmp/vmware-root/apploader-6008.log
removing file /tmp/vmware-root/apploader-3454.log
removing file /tmp/vmware-root/modconfig-5913.log
removing file /tmp/vmware-root/apploader-5913.log
removing file /tmp/vmware-root/modconfig-5976.log
removing file /tmp/vmware-root/apploader-3419.log
removing file /tmp/vmware-root/modconfig-6102.log
removing file /tmp/vmware-root/modconfig-6135.log
removing file /tmp/vmware-root/apploader-3387.log
removing file /tmp/vmware-root/modconfig-6166.log
removing file /tmp/vmware-root/apploader-3456.log
removing file /tmp/vmware-root/apploader-7699.log
removing file /tmp/vmware-root/modconfig-6229.log
removing file /tmp/vmware-root/modconfig-5945.log
removing file /tmp/vmware-root/modconfig-5819.log
removing file /tmp/vmware-root/apploader-3376.log
removing file /tmp/vmware-root/apploader-7812.log
removing file /tmp/vmware-root/modconfig-6198.log
removing file /tmp/vmware-root/apploader-6071.log
removing file /tmp/vmware-root/modconfig-6292.log
removing file /tmp/vmware-root/apploader-3362.log
removing file /tmp/vmware-root/apploader-7749.log
removing file /tmp/vmware-root/apploader-5945.log
removing file /tmp/vmware-root/apploader-3432.log
removing file /tmp/vmware-root/apploader-3437.log
removing file /tmp/vmware-root/apploader-3343.log
removing file /tmp/vmware-root/modconfig-6008.log
removing file /tmp/vmware-root/apploader-3476.log
removing file /tmp/vmware-root/apploader-3501.log
removing file /tmp/vmware-root/apploader-5976.log
removing file /tmp/vmware-root/modconfig-5882.log
removing file /tmp/vmware-root/modconfig-5850.log
removing file /tmp/vmware-root/apploader-3507.log
removing file /tmp/vmware-root/apploader-6039.log
removing file /tmp/vmware-root/modconfig-6071.log
removing file /tmp/vmware-root/apploader-3436.log
removing file /tmp/vmware-root/apploader-5819.log
removing file /tmp/vmware-root/apploader-3500.log
removing file /tmp/vmware-root/apploader-3521.log
removing file /tmp/vmware-root/apploader-3527.log
removing file /tmp/vmware-root/apploader-3422.log
removing file /tmp/vmware-root/apploader-5882.log
removing file /tmp/vmware-root/modconfig-6039.log
removing file /tmp/vmware-root/apploader-3408.log
removing file /tmp/vmware-root/apploader-5850.log
removing file /tmp/vmware-root/apploader-3341.log
removing file /tmp/vmware-root/apploader-3388.log
removing file /tmp/vmware-root/apploader-3474.log
removing file /tmp/vmware-root/apploader-3415.log
removing file /tmp/.rnd
removing file /tmp/vmware-config0/99-vmware-scsi-udev.rules
removing file /tmp/ks-script-sUMxbr
root@box2:/tmp#
Please help. Thanks in advance.
#2
LQ Addict
Registered: Mar 2012
Location: Hungary
Distribution: debian/ubuntu/suse ...
Posts: 21,804
you can write a small awk to do that:
Code:
tmpwatch --mtime +7 --nodirs /tmp --test | awk '/apploader/ { print $NF } ' | xargs /bin/rm -f
2 members found this post helpful.
#3
Senior Member
Registered: May 2007
Location: Sydney
Distribution: RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu, Debian, OS X
Posts: 1,305
Original Poster
Rep:
Quote:
Originally Posted by
pan64
you can write a small awk to do that:
Code:
tmpwatch --mtime +7 --nodirs /tmp --test | awk '/apploader/ { print $NF } ' | xargs /bin/rm -f
Yes, I can do it. But I thought there would be some switch to match a pattern and do the needful.
I just did some more google-ing but did not found it, so would try something similar. Thanks
#4
LQ Guru
Registered: Aug 2004
Location: Sydney
Distribution: Rocky 9.2
Posts: 18,356
If you want to do it that way, how about cron+find ?
#5
Senior Member
Registered: May 2007
Location: Sydney
Distribution: RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu, Debian, OS X
Posts: 1,305
Original Poster
Rep:
Quote:
Originally Posted by
chrism01
If you want to do it that way, how about cron+find ?
Thanks for the suggestion Chrism01.
Customer asked me specifically to use tmpwatch. It would have been a piece of cake with cron+fine
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