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Findus
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Oct 05, 2015

iCall / Automatic Backup Script / How to delete old backup files within iCall script?

Hi all! I am using an iCall script to automate the configuration backups of BIGIPs. The script runs fine, except for the command to delete the old backup file(s). The exec rm command does not work ...
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Ivan_129704
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Aug 30, 2018

Hi,

 

Although spent time from your question, I am in the same situation.

 

The problem is because in the tclsh language you can not use the wilcard *

 

Try replacing the line

 

exec rm -f /shared/tmp/f5backup*

 

By

 

exec sh -c "rm -f /shared/tmp/f5backup*"

 

Luck