Finding files that are 2 hours or older

[mh53jfe]

I need to write a program that removes only those files in a directory that are 2 hours or older.

Using something like this:
find . -mtime +0 -name '[A-Z]*'
This code snippet will return all files older than 1 day.

I have not found any reference finding a file that is n hours old.

Any help will be highly appreciated.

Thanks in advance for your help.

 

[PHV]

man touch
man find (! -newer)

Hope This Helps, PH.
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[meetramana]

This could give you a start:

#!/usr/bin/ksh
integer CURTIME=$(date '+%m%d%H%M')
integer REQTIME=$CURTIME-200
touch -m -a -t 0$REQTIME TEMPFILE
find . ! -newer HOURFILE -type f
rm -f HOURFILE


However the above one works only if the current month is until september, and
after october you will need to take out the zero"0" in the touch command, like change it to

touch -m -a -t $REQTIME TEMPFILE

 

[meetramana]

Correction Please

This could give you a start:

#!/usr/bin/ksh
integer CURTIME=$(date '+%m%d%H%M')
integer REQTIME=$CURTIME-200
touch -m -a -t 0$REQTIME HOURFILE
find . ! -newer HOURFILE -type f
rm -f HOURFILE


However the above one works only if the current month is until september, and
after october you will need to take out the zero"0" in the touch command, like change it to

touch -m -a -t $REQTIME TEMPFILE

 

[mrregan]

create a cron job to run every two hours
the first time the job runs, "oldfiles" will not exist

for i in `cat /mydir/oldfiles`
do
rm $i
done
ls /mydir > /mydir/oldfiles

 

[duncdude]

find . -newerct '2 hours ago'


Kind Regards
Duncan