Re: Unix questions - Please advice

> In my unix system (hp ux 10.20) I have one particular
> file will be generated from some applications every
> day.
>
> File name "MATERIAL.20020508225043"
>
> I usually deleted one month old files with <rm
> *200203*> command ( I need to keep last month files 04
> and delete all older than that). Can any one please
> help me writing a script to delete the files every
> month first date. so that I can put the script in cron
> job on every month 1st to delete more than one month
> old jobs.

If you have gnu date then:

    glob=$(date --date='yesterday' +'MATERIAL.%Y%m*');

will work.

Why not just use find :

    $datadir -mtime +30 | xargs rm -f;

to get rid of anything older than 30 days?

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