Deleting files and folders older than 15days 2

[inunix]

Hi

Can someone provide a script to delete files and directories older than "n" days.

Many thanks.

 

[PHV]

man find

Hope This Helps, PH.
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[sandeepmur]

Try this.. got this from an earlier post

#### MOVING OLD files BEFORE A CERTAIN DATE_TIME ########

touch 200503261800 /home/etbc01/temp/tempdate.txt // creates a reference date_Time file. In this case it is 26th of MArch, 2005 at 1800 hrs.

mv `find . ! -newer /home/temp/tempdate.txt -type f` /home/temp/

ofcourse u can delete them if u want to..
Hope this helps..

 

[KenCunningham]

You can also use -mtime +n if you're not too worried about exact times of creation.

 

[columb]

As this is turning up every month or so I've written faq80-5793

Columb Healy

 

[inunix]

Thanks columb.. this is exactly what I want. Many thanks. It saved me lot of my time.