How to delete the logs which are older than 7 days

[praveen..]

Hi,
I need a script which can remove the log files which are older than 7 days.

All the logs file are in /tmp/logs directory.

Please suggest

will this script be same for RHEL?

Thanks
Vipin

[Chan 007 · Accepted solution]

HI,

Use the to find files older than 1 year

find /tmp -mtime +365 -exec ls -l {} \;

Deleting

find /tmp -mtime +365 -exec rm -rf {} \;

Chan

[Yogeeraj_1]

hi vipin,

try the following:
find /tmp/logs/ -xdev -name "*" -mtime +7 -exec rm {} \;


to be cautious, please verify that the files you are deleting are ok by running:

find /tmp/logs/ -xdev -name "*" -mtime +7 -exec file {} \;

or
find /tmp/logs/ -xdev -name "*" -mtime +7 -exec ll {} \;


should work fine with RHEL as well.

kind regards
yogeeraj

[Peter Godron]

Hi,
you could try:

find /tmp/logs \( -type d ! -name . -prune \) -o \( -type f -mtime +7 ! -name "." -print \) -exec rm {} \;

[Berd]

Vipin,

I would use

find /tmp/logs -type f -mtime +7 -exec rm {} \;

Berd

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

This question is so commonly asked that the manpages for 'find' even have an example!

http://www.docs.hp.com/en/B2355-60127/find.1.html

Regards!

...JRF...

[praveen..]

Thanks