Need a script to delete all folders over 2 months old 1

[jewel464g]

I have a huge array of folders that are automatically generated by my IDS software. I need a script that will search through these folders and delete the ones that are over 2 months old. I have written some small shell scripts, but I just don't know how to write this one. Can someone be of some assistance??

thanks,
Jewel

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[fluid11]

I'm not in front of a Linux machine to test this out right now, but a command similar to this should do it...

find /opt -type d -atime +60 -exec `rm -fr` {} \;

This command assumes that the directories that you want to delete are under /opt. Don't run this command without editing the starting point first.

Let me test this command tomorrow when I'm in front of a Linux machine. It may need some touching up.

Tell us the names of the directories you want to delete and the full path to them.


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[KenCunningham]

Chris is quite correct. I'd only add that as a precaution you should do the find with a -print option before you do the rm, just to check that you're picking up the directories you think you are. Cheers.

 

[jewel464g]

thanks ChrisP, worked beautifully

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[pavNell]

just a syntax question for the find command...

what does the {} \; do or represent?

 

[fluid11]

thanks Ken.

When you use the find command with the -exec option, the {} is replaced by the find results and must be terminated with a \;

For example, lets say we do a find command and the results are for a few files called file1, file2, file3, and so on. When you use the -exec option, those files (file1, file2, file3...) are what go in the {}. If I say `rm -fr` {}, its the same as `rm -fr file1 file2 file3`.

The -exec option must always be terminated with a \;

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