script for deleting files with age over 30 days

[thedarkzone]

hi @ all!

i need to write a bash-script for deleting files that are over 30 days old. the entering of the directories and the deleting is working now, but i don't know how to determine the age of a file to know if it should be deleted or must not be deleted!

anybody a solution?

regard, thedarkzone

 

[zeland]

find / -type f -atime 30 -exec rm {} \;
find / -type f -ctime 30 -exec rm {} \;
find / -type f -mtime 30 -exec rm {} \;

- atime (file ACCESSED X days ago)
- ctime (file CREATED X days ago)
- mtime (file MODIFIED X days ago)

I'm not clear how you want to measure you 30 days; 30 days after what?

 

[CaKiwi]

zeland's solution will delete file that are exactly 30 days old. Use

find /mydir -type f -mtime +30 -exec rm {} \;

to delete files more than 30 days old. CaKiwi

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