Scripting deleting files older than XX number of days

[Chad Brindley]

Hello all
Every day we FTP a lot of files to and from legacy systems. What I would like to know (and how to do it) is that is it possible to write a simple script to check a certain file system path for any files that are 90 days or older and delete them. (Instead of me manually removing them each month)
of course I don't want to search the whole system. These files are held in their own file system;
/interface//archive
(there are several interfaces and we would have to look at each one.

We would put this script in the cron.

many thanks
Chad.

[Robert-Jan Goossens_1]

Hi Chad,

# find /filesystem -mtime +90 -type f -exec ll {} \;

try above command to list files older then 90 days, if it works change the ll into rm. You clould also add this command into a script.

Hope this helps,
Robert-Jan

[VEL_1]

Use the find command in cron to remove old log files:

The following command will delete the files which are not accessible for last 90 days.

find /interface//archive -type f -atime +90 -exec rm -rf {} \;

[MarkSyder]

find /interface//archive
-mtime +90 -exec rm {} \;

assuming you're deleting files on the system you're logged into and not a remote system.

Mark Syder (like the drink but spelt different)

[Chad Brindley]

Hi all
Thanks for the replies.
I've entred the command below to test lisitng the files before using the rm command:

find /interface/DEV/BACS -mtime +90 -exec ls {}\;

but I get the error
find: -exec not terminated with ';'

Am I missing something?

Chad (like the African Country but it's really my name)

[MarkSyder · Accepted solution]

You're missing a space after the } and before the \

Mark

[Chad Brindley]

Doh!

Thanks all
Thanks for your speedy responses.

Chad.

[Chad Brindley]

closed.
Thanks