Help on deleting files

[Mike_305]

Hello,

We have archives directory and trying get rid of lots of files but ll is talking too long to run and all the files in the directory are "0" size as far as I know.

We want to keep the files for year of 2009.

This is what I am trying to do but since "ll" is talking too long is not helping me out.

Does any guru's have better idea?

Appreciate your help and thanks in advance....MP

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ll | grep “2007” | cut –c61-72 > /tmp/file1
for X in $(cat /tmp/file1)
do
rm ${X}
done

or other process is

cat /tmp/file1 | sed –e “s/^/rm ” > /tmp/file2 - and then run file2 as delete the files.
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[Doug O'Leary]

Hey;

find . -mtime +93 -print | xargs -i rm {}

HTH;

Doug O'Leary

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

This will speed things up a bit, since one 'rm' process will remove multiple files instead of just one at a time:

# touch -amt 01010000 /tmp/ref
# find /path -type f ! -newer /tmp/ref -exec rm {} +

Regards!

...JRF...

[Tingli]

find /archive_directory -mtime +93 -exec rm {} \;

[Mike_305]

Thanks for your help.