Robert Moskowitz wrote:

I am consolidating a lot of files. I have archives of Internet drafts, from over the years.

I just pulled down all the current Internet Drafts.

I want to mv all my other stored IDs to this current directory ONLY if, they are larger.

You may be aware that when a draft is expired, a small file is left in the directory for some time with content like:

"This Internet-Draft has been deleted. Unrevised documents placed in the Internet-Drafts directories have a maximum life of six months. After that time, they are deleted. This Internet-Draft was not published as an RFC. "

If I have the actual draft, I would like it to replace this little tab. But if the draft is still available, then my old archive will tend to have a newer date, as I use to grab IDs via FTP which would date my copy the date I grabbed them. I built my current directory with wget with the -m option, which perserves the original file's date...

I would even be willing to do this with Nautilus, but so far it just tells me the file exists in the target directory and do I want to replace it...

Thanks for any help you can provide...

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Just had a 'nasty' thought. By using mget -m to maintain my IDs directory, all my efforts would be for naught, as the deleted message file will have a newer date than my copy of the original draft and overwrite it.

Crude.

Got to think some more on this......

find <someplace> -type f -print |\ xargs grep -l "This Internet-Draft has been deleted" \ | xargs rm

Keep known good while you practice.

Perl has a function to return a file's size, so a little perl may be useful.

Stat makes reports like this: [summer@bilby ~]$ stat .bash_history File: `.bash_history' Size: 321324 Blocks: 648 IO Block: 4096 regular file Device: 303h/771d Inode: 87460 Links: 1 Access: (0664/-rw-rw-r--) Uid: ( 1000/ summer) Gid: ( 1000/ summer) Access: 2007-03-28 07:06:59.000000000 +0800 Modify: 2007-03-27 21:02:15.000000000 +0800 Change: 2007-03-27 21:02:15.000000000 +0800 [summer@bilby ~]$ One can get the number with a little awk: [summer@bilby ~]$ stat .bash_history | awk '/Size/ {print $2}' 321324 [summer@bilby ~]$ (but this is better:-) [summer@bilby ~]$ stat -c '%s' .bash_history 321324 [summer@bilby ~]$

and do it all in sh.