What are you trying to achieve in Bash that you’re struggling with? It’s hard to suggest alternatives without knowing your objectives since languages excel in different areas.
The expression syntax for the GNU find command is very powerful. I would expect that it is up to the task. If you don’t have the GNU find command with it’s extensions I could see how it’s would be difficult.
As @damium@programming.dev says you may be able to do this with find command. This command lists all PDF files under ~/tmp that were created more than 7 days ago and does a directory listing. You could use this as a basis to move create an archive of individual files.
I have in the past used this combination to implement file management. I don’t have access to the script any more. I don’t remember why we used a shell script rather than logrotate as per @oddityoverseer@lemmy.world
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What are you trying to achieve in Bash that you’re struggling with? It’s hard to suggest alternatives without knowing your objectives since languages excel in different areas.
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You could look at logrotate if you don’t want to do something custom
The expression syntax for the GNU find command is very powerful. I would expect that it is up to the task. If you don’t have the GNU find command with it’s extensions I could see how it’s would be difficult.
As @damium@programming.dev says you may be able to do this with
findcommand. This command lists all PDF files under ~/tmp that were created more than 7 days ago and does a directory listing. You could use this as a basis to move create an archive of individual files.find ~/tmp -ctime +7 -iname "*pdf" -exec ls -rlht {} \;The
findcommand also has a-deleteflag.I have in the past used this combination to implement file management. I don’t have access to the script any more. I don’t remember why we used a shell script rather than logrotate as per @oddityoverseer@lemmy.world