Create a script haven’t been accessed for a week, then delete them

Posted on December 7, 2017February 27, 2021 | by scmgalaxy K

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rajeshkumar created the topic: Create a script haven’t been accessed for a week, then delete them
Create a script for a cronjob that checks a special directory for files with the extension .tmp that haven’t been accessed for a week, then delete them. Also remove all empty directories.

#!/bin/bash


usage()

{

echo "Usage: $0 [-d Valid Directory] [-e Valid File extension] [-a Access time in a day]" 1>&2;

exit 1;

}
while getopts ":d:e:a:" o; do

case "${o}" in

d)

d=${OPTARG}

if [ ! -d "$d" ]; then

echo "Directory $d not found"

usage

fi

;;

e)

e=${OPTARG}

echo "Passed file extension is $e"

;;

a)

a=${OPTARG}

echo "Passed number of days for access is $a"

;;

*)

usage

;;

esac

done

shift $((OPTIND-1))
# for Debug for output

echo "Directory is $d"

echo "File extension is $e"

echo "Accessed time is $a"
# Based on Inputs, this will find the specified file and delete it found accessed  according to parameters

#find $d -iname "*$e" -atime -$a -type f -print0

#find /root/raj -iname "*.txt" -atime -1 -type f -print0
find $d -iname "*$e" -atime -$a -type f -print0 | xargs -0 rm -rf
# This can be used as well but xargs would be faster for large file sets.

# find $d -iname "*$e" -atime -$e -type f | exec rm {} \;
# To Remove the empty directory

find $d -type d -empty -exec rmdir {} \;