Deleting files over 15 days old

[Bloobird]

Hi - Is there any easy way of deleting files that are over 15 days old from the system ? If necessary, I can use the day the files were created as the extension - e.g. <filename>.20020520

Thanks

 

[mewa]

Hi,
Try some useful options of find command:
# find /tmp -name &quot;*.ext&quot; -mtime 5 -exec ls -l {} \;

The above command will list all files in /tmp with extension .ext which were created/modified 5 days ago. You can change ls -l to rm and then you will delete the files.

mewa

 

[KenCunningham]

Use -mtime +15 to delete those files more than 15 days old, ie:

find /tmp -mtime +15 -name '*.ext' -exec rm {} \;

HTH.

 

[Bloobird]

Thanks Guys - Just what I was looking for !