Question

I’m writing a script to remove some build artifacts older than 1 week.

The files have names in the form artifact-1.1-200810391018.exe.

How do I go about removing only the files that are greater than 1 week old, excluding the time in hours and minutes at the end of the date-time-stamp?

Currently it is removing all of the files in the directory.

#!/bin/sh  NIGHTLY_LOCATIONS=( '/foo' '/bar' )  ARTIFACT_PREFIX='artifact-*-'  NUM_TO_KEEP=7  for home in $(seq 0 $((${#NIGHTLY_LOCATIONS[@]} - 1))); do         echo 'Removing artifacts for' ${NIGHTLY_LOCATIONS[$location]}          for file in `find ${NIGHTLY_LOCATIONS[$location]} -name '$ARTIFACT_PREFIX*'`; do                  keep=true                  for day in $(seq 0 $((${NUM_TO_KEEP} - 1))); do                         date=`date --date='$day days ago' +%Y%m%d`                          echo $(basename $file '.exe') ' = ' $ARTIFACT_PREFIX$date                          if [ '$(basename $file '.exe')' != '$ARTIFACT_PREFIX$date' ]; then                                 keep=false                         fi                 done                  if [ !$keep ]; then                         echo 'Removing file'                         rm -f $file                 fi         done done 

Answer 1

You mean, something along the line of:

find /path/to/files -name 'artifact*' -type f -mtime +7 -exec rm {} \; 

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