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Bash oneliner HOWTO to remove all the logs but from the last three days in case you face the “Argument list too long” issue
# we assume the target directory is /var/spool/bsms/main/errors/
cd /var/spool/bsms/main/errors/; ls -lrt | egrep ".sql$" | egrep -v "$(date +"%Y-%m-%d")|$(date -d '1 day ago' +"%Y-%m-%d")|$(date -d '2 day ago' +"%Y-%m-%d")" | awk '{print$8}' | xargs --no-run-if-empty -icrap rm -f crap
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I think you could do the bash oneliner in awk but you would probably need to generate some intermediate files and end with a cleanup. Give me until February
yep I can , but it will be longer
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