i had to do a script job in bash to delete all directory in a path which are older than a specified date except some of them. i know the name of the directories which shouldn't be deleted...
Can you help me???
i'm sorry but i'm a beginner...
lot of thanks!
This must be my find day.
find /yourpath -mmin +60 -type d -not \( -name dirname1 -o -name dirname2 \) -print0 | xargs -0 rm -r
will find and delete all directories older than 60 minutes (adapt accordingly) which are not named dirname1 or dirname2. You can extend this list with additional -o name dirname parts. Also, I would strongly recommend to replace the rm -r part with echo for testing.
try tmpwatch with the exclude options -x and -X
man tmpwatch for more info.
I've never used it myself with the excludes so i cant provide examples, but im pretty sure that'll work.
For GNU find:
find . ! -newermt 2010/10/01 -type d -regextype posix-egrep ! -regex '^.*/(foo|bar|baz)/?.*' -exec echo rm -rf {} +
This will find and delete directories older than the given date that do not match the regular expression. Change "foo", etc., to match your directory names. Separate each name using |. Remove the echo when you're finished testing. The modification time is checked, change to -newerat to check the access time instead.
