topic Re: Delete/Move files based on date in Operating System - Linux

Delete/Move files based on date

Tonatiuh — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 17:39:08 GMT

Red Hat Enterprise Linux

How can I delete all files older than certain date?

Ivan Ferreira — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 19:11:31 GMT

To find files older than 30 days use:

find /path -type f -mtime +30 -exec rm {} \;

To find based on a specific date, James Ferguson has an exelent example here:

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1048222

Tonatiuh — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 16:36:43 GMT

Ivan, I think I must change de "-mtime" by anny timestamp value, but I do not know the syntax of this value, could you help with some examples?