Re: Deleting old archive log files.

Years of Perl evangelism are finally paying off. :)

Jared

On Friday 05 April 2002 07:18, Igor Neyman wrote:
> Is it that terrible? :))
>
> Igor Neyman, OCP DBA
> ineyman_at_perceptron.com
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> > Or you could install Perl....
> >
> > My god, I am starting to sound like Jared.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > McDonald
> > Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 3:43 AM
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> >
> > I don't - but maybe take a look at the rman package
> > (dbms_rman.delete_file or something like that) which
> > allows you to delete files from the operating system.
> >
> > You could then use PL/SQl and the various v$ views to
> > determine which archives you want to toast.
> >
> > hth
> > connor
> >
> > --- Mark Leith <mark_at_cool-tools.co.uk> wrote: > Hi
> > All,
> >
> > > To save me re-inventing the wheel:
> > >
> > > Does anybody have a batch script (that runs on NT)
> > > that deletes archive log
> > > files that are older than X days old? I've looked at
> > > the DEL command, but
> > > this doesn't have a date/time based attribute
> > > parameter..
> > >
> > > Has anybody been through this already?
> > >
> > > All help appreciated!
> > >
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