topic Re: is it possible to delete files by DATE ? in Operating System - Tru64 Unix

is it possible to delete files by DATE ?

Bruno Vilardo — Fri, 19 Mar 2004 07:56:51 GMT

Hello all,

I wpuld like to know if itÂ´s possible to delete files by date instead of name.

Thanks a lot

Bru

Re: is it possible to delete files by DATE ?

Emil L. Dragic — Fri, 19 Mar 2004 09:03:22 GMT

Hi Bruno,

You can use "find" command to find and delete files older than certain date. E.g.

# find /user -ctime +3 -exec rm {} \;

will find and delete all files created more than three days ago under /user directory.

See man pages for find for more details about options.

Regards
Emil L. Dragic

Re: is it possible to delete files by DATE ?

Michael Schulte zur Sur — Fri, 19 Mar 2004 10:47:51 GMT

Hi Bruno,

as my predecessor said, find is the command of choice and info can be found in man pages.

You can search by modification time or access time of a file or by modification time of the inode of the file. This is:
mtime
atime
ctime
Time is in days and used with +,- or space.
+1 means 2days plus
-1 means less than 1day
1 means 1day.

greetings,

Michael