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|    Ammammata to All    |
|    delete files except the latest of every     |
|    10 Feb 21 11:35:28    |
      From: ammammata@tiscalinet.it              there's a backup scheduled daily for many different files              the related filenames are unique, i.e.              RSP_backup_2021_02_09_200005_8336305.bak       RSP_backup_2021_02_08_200007_8776502.bak       RSP_backup_2021_02_07_200005_8652391.bak       RSP_backup_2021_02_06_200005_4658428.bak       RSP_backup_2021_02_05_200005_1944601.bak       RSP_backup_2021_02_04_200005_6798320.bak       RSP_backup_2021_02_03_200005_4282408.bak       RSP_backup_2021_02_02_200005_0172624.bak       RSP_backup_2021_02_01_200005_9353583.bak       RSP_backup_2021_01_31_200006_2371866.bak       RSP_backup_2020_12_31_200003_2429004.bak       RSP_backup_2020_10_24_200004_0066296.bak              I'd like to delete, about every 3-4 months, all the backups except the       lates of every single month, tipically those with date 31/10/20 30/11/20       31/12/20 31/01/21 etc              in the above list you can see I kept current month (feb) and left the       latest of each previous one (jan, dec, oct)              I do this manually, right now it's not a huge tast, using a file manager,       but I wonder whether there is an automated solution since the different       backups will grow              TIA              --       /-\ /\/\ /\/\ /-\ /\/\ /\/\ /-\ T /-\       -=- -=- -=- -=- -=- -=- -=- -=- - -=-       ........... [ al lavoro ] ...........              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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