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Re: is it possible to delete files by DATE ?

 
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Bruno Vilardo
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is it possible to delete files by DATE ?

Hello all,

I wpuld like to know if it├В┬┤s possible to delete files by date instead of name.

Thanks a lot

Bru
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Emil L. Dragic
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Re: is it possible to delete files by DATE ?

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.

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Emil L. Dragic
Michael Schulte zur Sur
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Re: is it possible to delete files by DATE ?

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