This will help you to remove all the files between the two date ranges ie ( all files between May-2-2005 & June-6-2005)

Please run the commands mentioned in the previous post.Once you confirm the results,try running the above command,here "ok" used inplace od "exec" will wait for you confirmation before proceeding with the rm

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Nagarajan Ganesan.

Thanks ennstate for your help but I am going to go Shell Life's route!! I really appreciate your help though.

i need the log files for the files which are 2 days older before deleting the files

Just to be very clear i need to generate a log file in which the file name should be there before deleting the files which are two days older .. can anyone can help me on this .. Thanks in advance !!

Comment the second of these two lines in the option you already chose to use.
The output file will contain the list.

i am using this command find * -type f -atime +30 -exec gunzip {} \; for unzipping the files which are 30 days older .. but how can i get the log for which files the command has unzipped ..

This should be in a single line ..

Thanks!!

The simplest way would be to run the command twice, once without the exec, to list the files, the second with the exec to extract them.