delete file older than 5 days

[newhandle]

What is the command to delete files older than 5 days ?

Thanks.

 

[KenCunningham]

Hi newhandle,

you can use find for this:

find <directory to delete from> -mtime +5 -exec rm {} \;

Be careful with this - it deletes everything not modified for 5 days or more in the specified directory. It's always as well to do a:

find <directory to delete from> -mtime +5 -print

first, just to check that the files returned are indeed the ones you want. If not, it's possible the specify certain files like:

find <directory to delete from> -name '*.txt' -mtime +5 -exec rm {} \;

Replace *.txt with whatever filename/extension combination you require.

Hope this helps.

 

[mrn]

You also have the -atime & -ctime options

atime = access time
ctime = inode updated during the last 24 hrs

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