The most-recently-modified file is not a resource managed by puppet, but I
like how you're thinking. Maybe I find a way to configure this file
(directory, actually) to be a puppet resource. Thanks for the idea.
On Wednesday, March 16, 2016 at 12:46:53 AM UTC+1, Carthik Sharma wrote:
>
> Is the most-recently-modified file a resource managed by puppet? If so,
> you can use tidy with recurse, and tidy will not clean up the managed file.
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 4:01 AM, Tony Gaetani <tony.g...@gmail.com
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> I would like to have a tidy resource that deletes all files recursively
>> from directories matching a pattern, except for the most recently modified
>> file.
>>
>>
>> Something like this:
>>
>>
>> tidy {
>> 'clean up files except most recently modified one':
>> path => '/path/to/files',
>> recurse => true,
>> rmdirs => true,
>> age => '1h',
>> matches => 'some-pattern',
>> unless => '{bash script returning most recently modified file name}',
>> ;
>> }
>>
>>
>> I understand that this is really stretching the scope of what tidy is
>> for. That is why I have decided to just use an exec with a long line of
>> bash that does what I want. However, this long and complicated line of bash
>> code is not ideal for me because it is hard to understand and maintain,
>> it's just kind of ugly:
>>
>>
>> # 1 - find all directories matching a pattern, print the most recently
>> modified time and path
>> # 2 - sort by most recently modified
>> # 3 - remove the timestamp
>> # 4 - remove the last item
>> # 5 - rm -rf all of the paths
>> find /path/to/files -maxdepth 1 -type d -name 'some*pattern' -printf '%T+
>> %p\n' | sort | cut -d' ' -f2 | head -n -1 | xargs rm -rf
>>
>>
>> Even if tidy is not an option, does anyone else have any better ideas
>> than my exec?
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>> -Tony
>>
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