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0: #!/usr/bin/perl
1: 
2: #This is nothing special but it's the first real perl script I've done and I was interested
3: #in hearing comments and opinions.  Sorry if it's a little remedial for everybody but I
4: #think it beats the hell out of a hello world.
5: 
6: #This program deletes old unneeded backup logs with the goofy site dependent timestamp
7: #backup.MMDDYY.log.Z
8: 
9: $now=time; #WHATS THE CURRENT DATE/TIME
10: $deldate=$now-2419200;
11: #GO BACK 20 WORK DAYS
12: ($seconds,$minutes,$hour,$monthday,$month,$year,$weekday,$yearday,$dst_flag)=localtime($deldate);
13: $month+=1; #FORMAT MONTH
14: $month*=10000;
15: $monthday*=100; #FORMAT DATE
16: $year-=100; #FORMAT YEAR 
17: $TS=$year+$month+$monthday; #FORMAT TIMESTAMP
18: if ($TS < 100000) {
19: 	$TS ="0$TS";
20: }
21: $fullstamp="backup.$TS.log.Z";
22: unlink("/var/adm/$fullstamp"); #DELETE THE OLD LOGFILE

In reply to deletes timestamped logfiles (MMDDYY) based on actual time by tlay

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