I have a set of files that come in pairs:
/var/log/messages-20111001
/var/log/messages-20111001.hash
I've had several of these rotate away and now I'm left with a ton of /var/log/messages-201110xx.hash files with no associated log. I'd like to clean up the mess, but I'm uncertain how to remove a file that isn't part of a "pair". I can use bash or zsh (or any LSB tool, really). I need to remove all the .hash files that don't have an associated log.
Example
/var/log/messages-20111001.hash
/var/log/messages-20111002.hash
/var/log/messages-20111003.hash
/var/log/messages-20111004.hash
/var/log/messages-20111005
/var/log/messages-20111005.hash
/var/log/messages-20111006
/var/log/messages-20111006.hash
Should be reduced to:
/var/log/messages-20111005
/var/log/messages-20111005.hash
/var/log/messages-20111006
/var/log/messages-20111006.hash
for file in *.hash; do test -f "${file%.hash}" || rm -- "$file"; done
Something like this?
for f in /var/log/messages-????????.hash ; do
[[ -e "${f%.hash}" ]] || rm "$f"
done
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