Removing files from a directory

[Balaji_6]

Hello,

I have a Oracle database server and there is a directory with a log files updating regularly.I just want to search those files in with the date-wise and need to delete the logfiles files morethan 20 days old files.
And this is going to run as a cron daemon,this is part is perfect.

Please provide me a logic to solve the above issue.
If anything require more. please let me know.

Thanks & Regards
Balaji

[T G Manikandan · Accepted solution]

balaji,

When you mean the log files are they archive log files or the oracle trace log files.

Make sure and think twice that those files are not needed.

you can just do a

#find -type f -name -mtime +20 -print
list them


#find -type f -name "*.log" -mtime +20 -exec ll {} \;

Remove
#find -type f -name "*.log" -mtime +20 -exec rm {} \;

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Hi Balaji,

The first is to list the files in the directory, the second to remove the files.

# find /your_dir -mtime +20 -exec ls -l {} \;

# find /your_dir -mtime +20 -exec rm {} \;

Hope this helps,
Robert-Jan.

[Alex Ostapenko]

Also, you can see the files in reverse chronological order (date-wise) with the command "ls -lt | more" (lower case ell and lower case t).
=:-) Alex