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10-17-2006

Prasandha

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Remove the older files

Hi All,

I need to remove some old files which the file creation date is older than a week. I've tried to use command: find . -atime +6 -exec rm{}.
but it seems the creation date of files shown above were not as I expected.
please your kind advice.

Thanks.

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