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Old 05-14-2008, 07:09 PM   #1
neel.gurjar
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How to Find and remove 7 days before modified/created files


Hi,

On my linux machine I have one folder and there some temporary files get created daily. I want to create one script or command which will delete all files which are created/modified before 7 days.
Here I want to keep last 7 days files.

Please help
Thanks
Neelesh
 
Old 05-14-2008, 07:14 PM   #2
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man find
find /somedir -mtime +7 .....
 
Old 05-14-2008, 08:17 PM   #3
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Hey There,

Just in case you start getting errors (although that's all you'll get because if you just use rm it won't remove directories), but you could add

-type f

in your find parameters to avoid the "cannot delete blah: directory" type errors.

Best wishes,

Mike
 
  


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