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FILEDEF on UNIX with expiry date/time

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July 17, 2007, 11:52 AM
Francis Mariani
FILEDEF on UNIX with expiry date/time
Can a file be created via FILEDEF or UNIX OS command that has an expiry date and/or time?

Thanks.


Francis


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July 17, 2007, 03:57 PM
mgrackin
Francis,

I have never seen an ordinary file under Unix have an expiration date. Can you elaborate more on this question such as what are you trying to accomplish?


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July 17, 2007, 05:19 PM
Francis Mariani
I guess it was wishful thinking.

I was hoping to create a file in a main report that would be used for drill-downs and then in a couple of days would disappear. This is an AIX environment, no ReportCaster, but I imagine there's some kind of a OS-level scheduler that could run a script to delete the file...

Thanks,


Francis


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