topic Re: deleting files by timing in Operating System - HP-UX

deleting files by timing

Henry Chua — Tue, 08 Mar 2005 01:16:26 GMT

Hi Guys,

I am doing some housekeeping on my over cluddered filesystem. I was just wondering is there anyway I can delete away files by their time.. say files before "20:54:50" of the day?

thank u..
Henry

Re: deleting files by timing

Alex Lavrov. — Tue, 08 Mar 2005 01:59:51 GMT

In "find" command you can specify how old should be the files you want to find (man find). You can write a simple script that calculates how old are the files (according to the momen the script being run) and then delete all the files that find outputs.

You can read in man fo "find" command how to define the time window.

Re: deleting files by timing

Norman_21 — Tue, 08 Mar 2005 02:07:21 GMT

Hello

Here is a document if you have access to knowledgebase:
http://www1.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docLocale=en_US&docId=200000067131091

http://www1.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docLocale=en_US&docId=200000068500492

An example to remove files older than a week:
find /qti/archive -name :qtiarch*dbf.: -mtime +7 -exec rm {} \; -print

Hope this help

Re: deleting files by timing

Indira Aramandla — Tue, 08 Mar 2005 02:55:10 GMT

Hi Henry,

You can use find with mtime patameter to find the files that are older than a specified time and delete them.

Eg:- find /directory_name_path -name "arch*log" -mtime +3 -exec rm {} \;

will delete all the archive logs older than 3 days.

You could use the -newer option as well.

For other options have a lokk at man find.

IA.

Re: deleting files by timing

Mobeen_1 — Tue, 08 Mar 2005 03:10:47 GMT

Henry,
As many have mentioned in the previous posts, use -mtime qualifier with the find command to do this.

Addtional help you could look at man find

rgds
Mobeen

Re: deleting files by timing

Peter Godron — Tue, 08 Mar 2005 03:39:22 GMT

Henry,
if you want to remove files before a certain time AND DATE.

touch -t [[CC]YY]MMDDhhmm[.SS] file.mark
then use the find command with:
-newer file.mark

Regards

Re: deleting files by timing

Gordon Morrison — Tue, 08 Mar 2005 07:03:51 GMT

I suggest using Peter's touch command, then using
find . ! -newer file.mark
The "!" says "Not newer than"