topic Re: find command in Operating System - Linux

find command

Gemini_2 — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 15:34:15 GMT

I would like to run a find command that display 2005 logs directory.

I tried "find . -type d -mtime -30", but it display the logs from "today" to 30 days ago....

how do I display the log that is older than 30 days..

thank you

Re: find command

Steven E. Protter — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 16:02:56 GMT

Shalom,

Try type f.

Any time a directory has any file updated in it, it may get its time and date stamp updated.

SEP

Re: find command

Ivan Ferreira — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 16:09:22 GMT

Very simple, just change -30 to +30, the argument is like this:

-30 From now to 30 days ago
+30 Since 30 days or more
30 Exaclty 30 days

Re: find command

Gemini_2 — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 18:34:57 GMT

yes, I used "30" and that doesnt work...+ is perfect..thank you

Re: find command

Muthukumar_5 — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 03:07:31 GMT

Older than 30 days,

You have to use +30 so that it will search 31 or older days. -30 means it will search before 30 days.

So use as,

# find . -type d -mtime +30

will give that. To remove those directory then,

# find . -type d -mtime +30 -exec rm -irf {} \;

will do.

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Muthu