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Old 08-29-2008
Franklin52 Franklin52 is offline Forum Staff  
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Code:
-ctime +190 -type f -exec echo rm {} \;
These are options of the find command, it should be something like:

Code:
find /your/path/ -ctime +190 -type f -exec rm {} \;
Try the command first without -exec rm {} \; to be shure you have the right output.

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