file filtering

[hartingm]

I am setting up a clean up process on our system to remove temporary files that a report application creates. So far I have:

find /home/tempuser/report -amin +60 -iname *.txt

This gets me the initial list of files to look at. I need to filter that list to only files that have "TEMP" as the second line in the file. I am stuck at this point. I have tried using grep, but have not gotten it working correct yet.

Thanks for any ideas or suggestions.

Matt

p.s. This is being processed on a Slackware 10.1 system.

[bilbrey]

Hmmm. Okay, so the -amin +60 says only examine TEMP -containing files more that 60 minutes old. That I got. Then how about this:

create a shellscript called step2.sh (or whatever) and make it executable:

#!/bin/bash
TARGET=$1
head -n2 $TARGET | tail -n 1 | grep TEMP >> /dev/null
if [ $? == 0 ] ; then
echo $TARGET ;
fi

Then run this command in your cronjob:

find /home/tempuser/report -amin +60 -iname "*.txt" \
-exec /path/to/step2.sh {} \;

Once you're happy that it's always picking out the right files, then change that "echo $TARGET ;" line in step2.sh to "rm -f $TARGET ;"

best,

.brian

[hartingm]

Brian,

Thanks for the help. That does exactly what I needed and I was even able to research and understand all of it.

Matt