Re: shell cript deleting backups

["s. keeling" <keeling@spots.ab.ca>]

Incoming from mess-mate:
> 
> I backup my maildir directory every 3 days with 'konserve' ( kde
> backup utility). I've to delete manually older backups of these.
> The backup file look like this: Maildir-20050605182810.tar.gz
> Is there a utility to delete oldest backups automatically or must it
> done with a shell script?
> The difficulty resides to recognize the DATE of the backup.
> Thanks in advance for your help

  find /backup/dir -type f -name Maildir\* -mtime 4 -ok rm -f {} \;

will ask you whether it's okay to blow away any files 4*24 hours ago.
Change "-ok" to "-exec" to eliminate the "ask you" part.


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