Comment on What are the recommended scripting languages for complex shell scripts beyond bash?

fartsparkles@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• CoderSupreme@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Temporary files management for my home folder, with archiving and cleanup after x and y days.

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  • oddityoverseer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You could look at logrotate if you don’t want to do something custom

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  • damium@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The expression syntax for the GNU find command is very powerful. I would expect that it is up to the task. If you don’t have the GNU find command with it’s extensions I could see how it’s would be difficult.

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  • toikpi@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    As @damium@programming.dev says you may be able to do this with find command. This command lists all PDF files under ~/tmp that were created more than 7 days ago and does a directory listing. You could use this as a basis to move create an archive of individual files.

    find ~/tmp -ctime +7 -iname “*pdf” -exec ls -rlht {} \;

    The find command also has a -delete flag.

    I have in the past used this combination to implement file management. I don’t have access to the script any more. I don’t remember why we used a shell script rather than logrotate as per @oddityoverseer@lemmy.world

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