script help required

[Nick D'Angelo]

I would like to remove files >older than 180 days.

For some reason, my syntax does not actually delete them

The filenames are in the following format

trans.20050601

cd /req_dir
find trans* -atime +180 -exec rm{} \;

Any suggestions?

[Pete Randall · Accepted solution]

Use mtime instead:

cd /req_dir
find trans* -mtime +180 -exec rm{} \;


Pete

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Nick:

Your problem is that you need a space after the exec'd command and the curly braces.

# find trans* -atime +180 -exec rm {} \;

Regards!

...JRF...

[Zigor Buruaga]

Hi,

Sincerely I'm not sure on this, but I think you should put a blank space between "rm" and the brackets ( rm {} ... ).

Regards,
Zigor

[Nick D'Angelo]

Team Effort , James and Peter,

It was both the space and also the -mtime versus the -atime.

Thanks.

Nickd