How to find files that are older than 90 days 1

[mkw77]

Can anyone help please. I am trying to find files that are older than 90days in a directory and subsequent directory within. Anyone have any ideas how I might do this.

I think I may need to use the find command along with touching a file which current date in some kind of ls loop.

e.g
directory A
within directory A there are subsequent directorys say B,D,E,F etc
I need to find all files in these directories that are older than 90 days.

thanks in advance

 

[p5wizard]

Homework or other school assignment? No can do... :-(

 

[mkw77]

at the moment I am doing:-

cd into each directory then
ls -ltr | grep " 2003 " > free.sh
ls -ltr | grep " 2004 " >> free.sh
etc
then doing the same for files which have months e.g.

ls -ltr | grep " Mar " >> free.sh
etc..

Then using awk - print getting the file name
using vi editor to place an rm infront of each file

then running my script free.sh
so the script looks like this.

rm file1
rm file2
rm file3
etc

what I am asking is, if there is another quicker way to do this.

thanks

 

[PHV]

find dirA -type f -mtime +90 -ok rm {} \;

Hope This Helps, PH.
FAQ219-2884
FAQ181-2886

 

[p5wizard]

There's a neat site on the internet for answers to these mind-boggling questions...

[google]unix find files days old[/google]



HTH,

p5wizard

 

[ProbablyDown]

Or you can try this one

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=How+to+find+files+older+than+90+days+in+unix

 

[mkw77]

Thanks for your help - all sorted now