deleting files by timing

[Henry Chua]

Hi Guys,

I am doing some housekeeping on my over cluddered filesystem. I was just wondering is there anyway I can delete away files by their time.. say files before "20:54:50" of the day?

thank u..
Henry

[Alex Lavrov.]

In "find" command you can specify how old should be the files you want to find (man find). You can write a simple script that calculates how old are the files (according to the momen the script being run) and then delete all the files that find outputs.

You can read in man fo "find" command how to define the time window.

[Norman_21]

Hello

Here is a document if you have access to knowledgebase:
http://www1.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docLocale=en_US&docId=200000067131091

http://www1.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docLocale=en_US&docId=200000068500492

An example to remove files older than a week:
find /qti/archive -name :qtiarch*dbf.: -mtime +7 -exec rm {} \; -print

Hope this help

[Indira Aramandla]

Hi Henry,

You can use find with mtime patameter to find the files that are older than a specified time and delete them.

Eg:- find /directory_name_path -name "arch*log" -mtime +3 -exec rm {} \;

will delete all the archive logs older than 3 days.

You could use the -newer option as well.

For other options have a lokk at man find.

IA.

[Mobeen_1]

Henry,
As many have mentioned in the previous posts, use -mtime qualifier with the find command to do this.

Addtional help you could look at man find

rgds
Mobeen

[Peter Godron]

Henry,
if you want to remove files before a certain time AND DATE.

touch -t [[CC]YY]MMDDhhmm[.SS] file.mark
then use the find command with:
-newer file.mark

Regards

[Gordon Morrison]

I suggest using Peter's touch command, then using
find . ! -newer file.mark
The "!" says "Not newer than"