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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Too many files to list / remove Post 25640 by peter.herlihy on Thursday 1st of August 2002 06:01:50 PM
Old 08-01-2002
You should be able to manage this with a simple for loop.

for each_file in /path/directory/*
do
echo ls -latr $each_file >> directory_log
done

Now you can't have your cake and eat it to... so if you want to see this list first (beofre you remove the old files) then you can view this file.

If you then want to remove old files...

find /path/directory/ -mtime +29 -exec ls {} \;

Where +29 says anything over 29 days in the specified directory.

You could combnie these into one command if you want...but I'll leave you something to do!

Oh postscript.....the mtime is date modified !
 

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GIT-CLEAN(1)							    Git Manual							      GIT-CLEAN(1)

NAME
git-clean - Remove untracked files from the working tree SYNOPSIS
git clean [-d] [-f] [-n] [-q] [-x | -X] [--] <path>... DESCRIPTION
Cleans the working tree by recursively removing files that are not under version control, starting from the current directory. Normally, only files unknown to git are removed, but if the -x option is specified, ignored files are also removed. This can, for example, be useful to remove all build products. If any optional <path>... arguments are given, only those paths are affected. OPTIONS
-d Remove untracked directories in addition to untracked files. If an untracked directory is managed by a different git repository, it is not removed by default. Use -f option twice if you really want to remove such a directory. -f, --force If the git configuration variable clean.requireForce is not set to false, git clean will refuse to run unless given -f or -n. -n, --dry-run Don't actually remove anything, just show what would be done. -q, --quiet Be quiet, only report errors, but not the files that are successfully removed. -x Don't use the ignore rules. This allows removing all untracked files, including build products. This can be used (possibly in conjunction with git reset) to create a pristine working directory to test a clean build. -X Remove only files ignored by git. This may be useful to rebuild everything from scratch, but keep manually created files. AUTHOR
Written by Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org[1]> GIT
Part of the git(1) suite NOTES
1. proski@gnu.org mailto:proski@gnu.org Git 1.7.1 07/05/2010 GIT-CLEAN(1)
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