remove files by filenames and date

[Nitin Nigam]

Hi

I want to delete the files by filename and date.
if I use
"find /home/test/gr* -mtime +5 | xagrs rm"
it works fine but the problem is I have nearly 30 different files and there is possibility that new files can be added to the directory.
What I want is the script that will look for the filenames and if they are 5 days old delete them.
At the same time I want to delete some files on the same directory after 10 days.
and if new files are added then delete them after 15 days.
thanks

[twang]

How about this,
find /home/test/gr* -name -mtime +5 -exec rm {} \;
find /home/test/gr* -mtime +10 -exec rm {} \;

[Rajeev Shukla]

Hi,
Have a look at the man pages of "find" you'll see many more options you can use with it to fine tune you'r deletion.
like

find -type f -name -mtime +5 -exec rm {} \;

same for 10 and 15 days

[Bhuvaneswari Selvaraj]

Hi,
Can you please elaborate the question? What do you want to do?

You know that in the command that you had given
find /home/test/gr* -mtime +5 | xagrs rm"

the mtime can be changed to 5 or 10 or 15 or whatever you want and executing the commands in sequence will delete the files based on mtime..

Is that what you want to do? or you want to accomplish all these in a single command? or do u want to do something alltogether different?