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How to delete files from a folder, which is older then 10 days? [message #207803] Thu, 07 December 2006 01:33 Go to next message
vishal.majithia
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Registered: December 2006
Location: Mumbai
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Hi,

Can anyone help me how to delete files from unix folder, which are 10 days older????

Please...its urgent.....

Thanks in advance...
Vishal M.
Re: How to delete files from a folder, which is older then 10 days? [message #207805 is a reply to message #207803] Thu, 07 December 2006 01:39 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Frank Naude
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Try someting like this (but test on non-prod first!):

$ find /my/unix/folder -atime +10 -exec rm -f {} \;
Re: How to delete files from a folder, which is older then 10 days? [message #210802 is a reply to message #207805] Fri, 22 December 2006 07:54 Go to previous messageGo to next message
vishal.majithia
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Registered: December 2006
Location: Mumbai
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Hi All,

Finally, I got the solution and you need to use the syntax something like mentioned below....

find 'Your File Path Name' -name '*.dat' -atime +10 -exec rm -f {} \;
Re: How to delete files from a folder, which is older then 10 days? [message #211680 is a reply to message #210802] Sun, 31 December 2006 04:55 Go to previous messageGo to next message
tarundua
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Registered: June 2005
Location: India
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Vishal,
Did you ever come back to check the solution, after posting your question? Because Frank replied your question on 7th december, the day when you posted the qestion and i do not see much difference between Frank's solution and the answer you got.
Anyway, Enjoy posting....
Re: How to delete files from a folder, which is older then 10 days? [message #212139 is a reply to message #207803] Wed, 03 January 2007 23:52 Go to previous messageGo to next message
bsureysh
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Location: india
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rm -f `find "directorypath" -name '*.txt' -atime -10`

Chk this ..!!
Re: How to delete files from a folder, which is older then 10 days? [message #215766 is a reply to message #212139] Tue, 23 January 2007 17:39 Go to previous messageGo to next message
kalgally
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Registered: January 2007
Location: SJ
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Try this.

To find the files older than 10 days:

find . -mtime +10 -print|xargs ls -l|more

To remove files older than 10 days :

find . -mtime +10 -print|xargs rm
Re: How to delete files from a folder, which is older then 10 days? [message #323690 is a reply to message #215766] Thu, 29 May 2008 04:36 Go to previous messageGo to next message
anilalkg
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Registered: May 2008
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OR else you can use this perl script to have better control

********



my $dir = '/data/tmp/cvsbackup';
$dir='/export/home/tmp/akg'; # Remove later
opendir(DIR,$dir) || die "Can't open $dir : $!\n";
my @files = readdir(DIR); # you may want to grep only certain files here
close(DIR);

foreach my $file(@files)
{
my $now = time;
my @stat = stat("$dir/$file");

if ($stat[9] < ($now - 864000))
{
logMsg( "Deleting $dir/$file...");
#unlink("$dir/$file"); # Remove later
logMsg("Done.\n");
}

}


Re: How to delete files from a folder, which is older then 10 days? [message #323894 is a reply to message #207803] Thu, 29 May 2008 23:44 Go to previous message
BlackSwan
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>OR else you can use this perl script to have better control
"better" as measured by what metric to what accuracy?
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