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Old 07-15-2008
chaseeem chaseeem is offline
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If the date on the file name is the same as the last modified time you may use.

find . -name '*.log' -mtime +90 -exec rm {} \;



-rw-r--r-- 1 owner group 10322 Jul 14 23:47 log.071408