Hi,
How are you? I am trying to write a small unix program using unix shell script. I came upon your website by doing a search on unix help. I use Linux, Red Hat 7.1, any help will be appreciated. Thanks.

Suppose I have a working folder called “DIR1” under that folder I have three existing files : FILE1, FILE2, FILE3, for a project.
Now after I compile those files and build two other new files were created : NEW1, NEW2.
I am writing a program/shell script which will verify all 5 FILES ( 3 existing and 2 newly created). This program will delete the newly created 2 files(NEW1,NEW2) and leave the previously existing 3 files (FILE1, FILE2, FILE3) unchanged. Another words the directory “DIR1” will go back to it’s original status.

please do not double post... you might want to ask this in the programming forum... and i closed it in the general forum cause of the double posts..

How are you planning to decide which are the new and old files? By their timestamps yeah? If you are going to do this how are you going to decde which ones you keep, or will you always keep the oldest 2/3 files??

I think you need to provide a little more detail... If you are just going to erase all files newer then a specific time then you can just use the find command to removing them (by making it call rm for each matched file).

cheers

Jamie...