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I have been asked to create an automatic procedure which cleans out (ie delete) files older than 6 months. Transaction files keep coming into the system, and after having been processed (read) they are moved to an IFS directory 'archive'. We now have more than 90.000 files from last 26 months. I have considered various solutions like 'ls' to a file, and then read via pgm and execute delete, BUT something tells me that there is a better solution. I would like to do the job from a CL-pgm using STRQSH with some 'rm' command, but I got stuck in my investigations.
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Pls give me some thoughts on how to do this smart.Software/Hardware used:system i, v6r4. After a lot of investigation, I got created the one-statement-solution to my question.Since no one amongst you seems to know what I found out, I'll teach you the trick.If you insert the directory-path of the directory to search/delete old files into the following CL-statement the command will do the job of deleting fils older than 180 days.STRQSH CMD('find mydirpath -type f -mtime +180 xargs rm')In short: the QSHELL command 'find' creates an internal list of files older than 180 days; - the lst is 'piped' (passed) to the delete-function ('xargs rm'). Of course the 180-number may be changed to other values.Yet another proof tht we are working on a great machine - it also runs unix-commands:-)PS: Some may prefer two lines of code:CD mydirpathSTRQSH CMD('find.type f -mtime +180 xargs rm')best rgdsDanF.