topic Re: script for remove file time basis in Operating System - Linux

script for remove file time basis

Francesco_13 — Fri, 12 Dec 2003 07:50:02 GMT

Hi,
I need a script in Ksh for remove only the old files; for example the files with more then 4 weeks.
Thank

Re: script for remove file time basis

Pete Randall — Fri, 12 Dec 2003 07:52:45 GMT

find /dirname -type f -mtime +28 -exec rm {} \;

Pete

Re: script for remove file time basis

Robert-Jan Goossens_1 — Fri, 12 Dec 2003 07:53:43 GMT

Hi,

locate the files
# find /dir -mtime +28 -exec ls -l {} \;

# find /dir -mtime +28 -exec rm {} \;
remove the files.

Hope this helps,
Robert-Jan

Re: script for remove file time basis

RAC_1 — Fri, 12 Dec 2003 07:55:26 GMT

Check man page of find. -mtime option.

find /dir_wher_files_reside -mtime +28 -exec rm {} \;

Re: script for remove file time basis

Francesco_13 — Fri, 12 Dec 2003 08:07:14 GMT

Ok...Thank
Ciao a tutti!

Re: script for remove file time basis

I.Delic — Sat, 13 Dec 2003 06:08:13 GMT

Hi francesco,

For the first time i should use option -OK

find . -mtime +28 -ok rm {} ';'

Then you can see witch file you just removed.

Succes

Idriz

Re: script for remove file time basis

Jordan Bean — Thu, 18 Dec 2003 18:52:14 GMT

HP's find has a builtin xargs feature to avoid spawning rm for each file:

find /dir -type f -mtime +28 -exec rm -f \+

The result is similar to:

find /dir -type f -mtime +28 | xargs rm -f

I don't believe -ok works this way, but you can acheive that in this way:

find /dir -type f -mtime +28 | xargs rm -i

Re: script for remove file time basis

Francesco_13 — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 05:47:42 GMT

thanks