How to delete old directories with perl script?

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I have directory names in the format of "yyyy-mm-dd_hh-mm-ss". Sometimes I =
want to delete all the non-empty directories that are from last week or ear=
lier. Other times I want to delete all the directories that are over a week=
old.

Is there a script out there already that does this?

Assuming the answer is no, I started writing a script. Unfortunately, the f=
ollowing does not produce an error and does not work.

$ perl -MFile::Tasks -e '(File::Tasks->new)->remove_dir("2008-03-11_15-42-5=
8/");

So how would you enumerate the directories, find the ones that are old (acc=
ording to the above criteria) and delete them and their contents? What pack=
ages would you use?
Thanks,
Siegfried





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Re: How to delete old directories with perl script?

you can use File::Find module to traverse the directory.

I think this module is simulating the unix find command.


On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 10:58 PM, Siegfried Heintze (Aditi)
wrote:
> I have directory names in the format of "yyyy-mm-dd_hh-mm-ss". Sometimes I want to delete all the non-empty directories that are from last week or earlier. Other times I want to delete all the directories that are over a week old.
>
> Is there a script out there already that does this?
>
> Assuming the answer is no, I started writing a script. Unfortunately, the following does not produce an error and does not work.
>
> $ perl -MFile::Tasks -e '(File::Tasks->new)->remove_dir("2008-03-11_15-42-58/");
>
> So how would you enumerate the directories, find the ones that are old (according to the above criteria) and delete them and their contents? What packages would you use?
> Thanks,
> Siegfried
>
>
>
>
>

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Re: How to delete old directories with perl script?

On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 11:58 PM, Siegfried Heintze (Aditi)
wrote:
> I have directory names in the format of "yyyy-mm-dd_hh-mm-ss". Sometimes I want to delete all the non-empty directories that are from last week or earlier. Other times I want to delete all the directories that are over a week old.
>
> Is there a script out there already that does this?
>
> Assuming the answer is no, I started writing a script. Unfortunately, the following does not produce an error and does not work.
>
> $ perl -MFile::Tasks -e '(File::Tasks->new)->remove_dir("2008-03-11_15-42-58/");
>
> So how would you enumerate the directories, find the ones that are old (according to the above criteria) and delete them and their contents? What packages would you use?
snip

Well, the glob* function combined with the grep** and -d*** functions
get you part way there and the rmtree function from File::Path****
does the rest:

#iterate over all directories that are not empty
for my $dir (grep { -d and <$dir/*> } <*>) {
#skip any directories that don't match our pattern
next unless my $date = $dir =~
/^([0-9]{4}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2})_[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2}$/;
#blow away directory if it is older than the target date
rmtree [$dir], 0, 0 if $date lt $target_date;
}

* http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/glob.html
** http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/grep.html
*** http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/-X.html
**** http://perldoc.perl.org/File/Path.html

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Re: How to delete old directories with perl script?

On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 12:37 AM, Li, Jialin wrote:
> you can use File::Find module to traverse the directory.
>
> I think this module is simulating the unix find command.
snip

File::Find is a good module, but in this case we are working with
files that are all in the same directory, so it is overkill.
File::Find is a good choice when we want to work with entire
hierarchies of directories.

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Re: How to delete old directories with perl script?

Siegfried Heintze (Aditi) wrote:
> the following does not produce an error and does not work.
>
> $ perl -MFile::Tasks -e
> '(File::Tasks->new)->remove_dir("2008-03-11_15-42-58/");

File::Path is probably a better choice than File::Tasks.

perl -MFile::Path -e 'rmtree("2008-03-11_15-42-58")'

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Re: How to delete old directories with perl script?

"Siegfried Heintze (Aditi)" schreef:

> I have directory names in the format of "yyyy-mm-dd_hh-mm-ss".
> Sometimes I want to delete all the non-empty directories that are
> from last week or earlier. Other times I want to delete all the
> directories that are over a week old.

Consider IO::All.

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