topic Re: Remove files with date criteria in Operating System - HP-UX

Remove files with date criteria

Michele Schwob — Sat, 11 Mar 2000 23:43:09 GMT

I want to create a daemon that remove files in a specified directory (temp
dirctory). I want this procedure to delete files that are older than a month
ago. How to do that with unix command? The rm and mv command doesn't include
parameter for date criteria!!

Thanks for help me.

Re: Remove files with date criteria

Bruce Regittko_3 — Sun, 12 Mar 2000 09:51:24 GMT

The find command has a criteron that will do what you want. The find command
can also remove files as well. Check the man page first, but I beleive the
following is what you want: find /tmp -atime +30 -exec rm {} \;

Bruce