Purging Script

purge

#!/bin/bash

locations=/opt/purgescript/purgelocations
purge_days=7
log_location=/opt/purgescript/logs/delete_log
regex=".*\.\(mxf\|mp4\|avi\|mov\)"

function locate_files () {

for loc in `cat ${locations} | sed '/^$/d'`
do

        date_f=`date +%Y"-"%m"-"%d" "%H":"%M":"%S`
        echo "${date_f} Deleting the following files" >> ${log_location}
        files=`find ${loc} -mtime +${purge_days} -iregex $regex -type f`
        for l in ${files}
        do
                date_f=`date +%Y"-"%m"-"%d" "%H":"%M":"%S`
                echo ${date_f} deleting ${l} >> ${log_location}
        done
        #find ${loc} -mtime +${purge_days} -iregex $regex -type f -delete
done

}

locate_files