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# 1  
Old 09-10-2014
Three month old specific files deletion
Hi,

I need to delete 3 month old files in my logpath. This path contains several logs and other important files

The file names are be like this

sl_details.env
tomcatfiles_03062014.log
application_zur_03.062014.log

I need to delete only tomcatfiles logs. I wrote this command.

can some one confirm is it good or any best is there

Code:
find . -type f -name "tomcatfiles*log" -mtime +90 ! -name "*.gz" | xargs gzip -9v

# 2  
Old 09-10-2014
Hello Nag_sathi,

Following command may help you in same. It will delete the files older than 90 days with name

Code:
find . -type f -mtime +90 -name "tomcatfiles*.log" | xargs rm -rf

Also please use only find to double check that all files which you are getting as output are good to delete.

Here is an example I tried in my server.

Code:
ls -ltr | grep tomcat
-rw-r--r-- 1 Singh01 Singh01                0 Dec 12  2013 tomcat_13.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 Singh01 Singh01                0 Dec 12  2013 tomcat_12.log
 
find . -mtime +90 -name "*.log"
./tomcat_13.log
./tomcat_12.log
 
find . -mtime +90 -name "*.log" | xargs rm -rf
 
ls -ltr | grep tomcat
<NO Result now>


Thanks,
R. Singh
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# 3  
Old 09-10-2014
Quote:
Originally Posted by RavinderSingh13
Hello Nag_sathi,

Following command may help you in same. It will delete the files older than 90 days with name

Code:
find . -type f -mtime +90 -name "tomcatfiles*.log" | xargs rm -rf

Also please use only find to double check that all files which you are getting as output are good to delete.

... ... ...

Thanks,
R. Singh
There is no need to start up xargs for this. The following does the same thing without invoking xargs:
Code:
find . -type f -mtime +90 -name 'tomcatfiles*.log' -exec rm -f {} \;

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# 4  
Old 09-10-2014
Quote:
Originally Posted by nag_sathi
I need to delete 3 month old files in my logpath.
Please specify what exactly you mean by "3 month old":

exactly 3 months/90 days?
3 months/90 days and older?
3 months / 90 days and younger?

The command you wrote:

Code:
find .  -mtime +90

selects the second variant (90 days and older), which might not be what you want.

If you want to specify an exact timeframe (only files older than a certain point in time and younger than a certain other point in time) you can use two reference files with the "-newer" clause:

Code:
find /some/path -newer referencefile1 ! -newer referencefile2

You can create these reference files with "touch" and give them the timestamp you need.

I hope this helps.

bakunin
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# 5  
Old 09-10-2014
Better to use -exec operator.

First use this for verification:
find . -type f -mtime +90 -name 'tomcatfiles*.log' -exec ls {} \;

And then this for deletion:
find . -type f -mtime +90 -name 'tomcatfiles*.log' -exec rm -f {} \;
Last edited by Corona688; 09-10-2014 at 04:32 AM..
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# 6  
Old 09-10-2014
Hi All,

Thanks for the response.

If i want to zip only log files and omit all existing zipped files,other files.

is the below work

Code:
find . -type f -name "tomcatfiles*log" -mtime +90 ! -name "*.gz" | xargs gzip -9v

# 7  
Old 09-10-2014
Hi,

Specifying "tomcatfiles*log" will only find files that start "tomcatfiles" and end "log" so the exclusion of the ".gz" files is superfluous also you should use the "-exec" switch within find.

So the command would look like;

Code:
find . -type f -mtime +90 -name "tomcatfiles*.log" -exec gzip -9v {} \;

Regards

Dave
Last edited by gull04; 09-10-2014 at 09:20 AM.. Reason: Wrong Quotes
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