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From: squash@math.ufl.edu (Jonathan King)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Crafty automatic file deletion?
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Date: 16 Mar 91 00:41:16 GMT
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My .logout contain a call to _find to automatically remove files
satisfying certain criteria.  I would like the file's name to provide
the criterion.  For example, files

  letter.rm.60.tex
  c_hack.rm.120.c

would be automatically removed if unmodified for 60 and 120 days.
  (Of course, I could put the specific numbers "60" and "120" into my
  call to _find.  I would like this to work, automatically, for all
  numbers that are valid to, say, the -mtime switch of _find.)
Can this be done by _find or by some other program?

Thank you.
Jonathan  squash@math.ufl.edu