cleanup
Purpose:
- Remove old or excessive number of files.
Enter:
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cleanup <max_age> <max_files> “file_filter” <percent> [-r]
Where:
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max_age Specify the maximum file age in days. max_files Specify the maximum number of files. file_filter Specify a pathname file filter enclosed in quotes. percent Optional. Specify the minimum disk percent used before cleanup is executed. default value is 0. -r Optional. Specify recursion for subdirectories.
Example:
- cleanup 7 100 “/data/compressed/1999*.hst”
The above command removes files in the /data/compressed/ directory which have the .hst extender and begin with 1999, if the files are older than 7 days and if the number exceeds 100. If the number of files exceeds 100, the oldest ones are removed until only 100 are left.
cleanup 7 1000 “/data/compressed/1999*.hst”
The above command removes all files in the /data/compressed/ directory which have the .hst extender and begin with 1999, and are older than 7 days. If the number of files exceeds 1000, the oldest ones are removed until only 1000 are left.
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cleanup 7 1000 “/data/compressed/1999*.hst” percent=50
The above command removes all files in the /data/compressed/ directory which have the .hst extender and begin with 1999, and are older than 7 days if the percentage of disk space used is greater than 50oldest ones are removed until only 1000 are left.
cleanup 7 100 “/data/hold/n*” -r
The above command removes n* files in the /data/hold/ directory and its subdirectories that are older than 7 days, up to a maximum of 100 files in all.
Notes:
- A log of removed files will be written into a file named /data/cleaned_files.YYMMDD