Recursive delete select files more than 60 days old

[Bob]

I've made a few attempts at this, but it's not working.  I have a structure like this:

/srv/data/dataset1
/srv/data/test1_prog1_123
/srv/data/test2_prog1_5442
/srv/data/test3_prog1_123
/srv/data/test4_prog2_6773

I need to get rid of the stuff with .*_prog1_.* and .*_prog2_.* in it, but leave the other stuff.  Here's my last attempt:

bundle agent sitemain
{
vars:
      "prog_logs" slist => { ".*_prog1_.*/.*", ".*_prog2_.*/.*" };

files:
  data_sys::
    "/srv/data"
    delete        => tidy,
    file_select   => name_age("@(sitemain.prog_logs)", "60"),
    depth_search => recurse("inf");
}

The issue is nothing is being removed. Here's what I see in the log:

cf3>  ->>  Entering /srv/data/test1_prog1_123 (0)

but never any deletes.

[Neil Watson]

Note enough data provided. But, leaf name only matches the file node, not
the directories. Also, your regexes are far to loose and greedy. Tighten
them up and test with pcregrep or gnu grep -P.

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[Ted Zlatanov]

On Fri, 28 Aug 2015 13:58:33 -0700 (PDT) Bob <buha...@gmail.com> wrote:

B> I've made a few attempts at this, but it's not working. I have a structure
B> like this:

B> /srv/data/dataset1
B> /srv/data/test1_prog1_123
B> /srv/data/test2_prog1_5442
B> /srv/data/test3_prog1_123
B> /srv/data/test4_prog2_6773

B> I need to get rid of the stuff with .*_prog1_.* and .*_prog2_.* in it, but
B> leave the other stuff.

You could build the slist of such files with findfiles()

https://docs.cfengine.com/latest/reference-functions-findfiles.html

So `/srv/data/test/*_prog[12]_*` might work for you.

Ted