Deleting files older than....

[snooperx]

Hello all!

I´m wondering if someone could provide a script that would sweep files off the /tmp dir only when they´re older than 30 days!

Thanks for any help.

Jeffo.

 

[Salem]

To check it works, by printing out what it finds

find /tmp -mtime -30 -print

To actually delete stuff

find /tmp -mtime -30 -exec rm -f {} \;

 

[snooperx]

Allright Salem.

Thanks for the hints. I'll try it out tomorrow.

I'll be using this on an AIX and HP-UX machines if it works.

[ ]s!
Jeffo.

 

[snooperx]

Uh-oh...seems that the first command is listing ALL files on /tmp, even those that I just touched....

Any hints??

 

[KenCunningham]

Jeffo,

the -mtime -30

should be

-mtime +30

to give you files over 30 days old.

Just a typo, I think. HTH.

 

[snooperx]

Allright, it worked great, thanks!

[ ]s.

 

[PHV]

If you have a lot of old files, this can run faster:

find /tmp -mtime +30 -print | xargs rm -f

Hope This Help
PH.