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I run an OpenSuse server that uploads zipped source code backups to a Microsoft FTP server every night. I have written a Bash script that does this through a cron job.
I want to delete backed up files that are older than a certain date. How could I do this?
You can delete files on the FTP server using the delete or mdelete FTP commands. I don’t know of a way to select old files as a server-side operation, so one option would be to do an FTP ls to get a list of the files on the server, then parse the output to pick up those files which are older than your specified date. Then delete each one using an FTP command.
If you have a local copy of all the files then it is probably easier to generate the list of files locally using find then delete them one at a time from the server.
If you have some control over the FTP server then using rysnc instead of FTP would probably be easier.