Delete Some Old files from Particular Directory

siva80_cit · #1 (**permalink**) 12-11-2006

Hi Team,
I am new to scripting. I want to create a script, which needs to keep only 5 days directories and want to remove the old directory from a particular directory. Can Somebody help me with starting this script.

All my directories will be created in the name <YYYYMMDD>.

Thanks in Advance..

Rgds,
Siva

cskumar · #2 (**permalink**) 12-11-2006

find /path -type d -ctime +5 -name '[0-9]{8}*' -print |xargs rm -i

give the full path in the place of /path .

this will take the creation date and time of the folders.

cskumar · #3 (**permalink**) 12-11-2006

Suppose if u have created a new file or did some manipulation of files in your folder YYYYMMDD and to delete those folders then u have to use
-mtime instead -ctime.

-mtime -->modification time
-ctime -->last change file time.

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