Deleting multiple files by date stamp

[Morris Makuch]

Hello. I have hundreds of files in a directory that I don't need any more. But I only want to delete the files that are older than 90 days. Is there a easy way of doing this in one command? Thanks

[Rodney Hills]

I would do the following

find /path -mtime +90 -print >/tmp/oldfiles
more /tmp/oldfiles

After examining the list, I would then remove them by-

cat /tmp/oldfiles | xargs rm

HTH

-- Rod Hills

[A. Clay Stephenson · Accepted solution]

cd to dir
find . -mtime +90 -exec rm {} \;

You may want to restrict it to just regular files as well:
find . -type f -mtime +90 -exec rm {} \;

It's always a good idea to restrict the -exec command to a "safe" comand until you are confident that you have the command filtered/restricted enough:

e.g. -exec ls {} \;

Man find for details and more examples.

[Marvin Strong]

as the others stated.

find /path -type f -mtime +90 | xargs rm