1. Shell Programming and Scripting

I need to find files that have the ending of .out and that are older than 20 days. However, I cannot use find as I do not want to search in the directories that are underneath the directory that I am searching in. How can this be done?? Find returns files that I do not want. (2 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

I am looking for a way to show files that have been created within a certain period (say anything older than 10 minutes or so). Is there a command/series of commands I can do this with? As an example, I have the following in a directory: -rw-r--r-- 1 owner group 70175 May 16 09:10... (1 Reply)

3. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Hi, I want to find the files older than 4 hours and remove them in HP-UX 11.23. Can anyone tell me how to do this? Thanks, GK (3 Replies)

4. Solaris

Hello, I need help in finding files older than x days and creating a single consolidated tar file combining them. Can anyone please provide me a script? Thanks, Dawn (3 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

I need a script to find files older than 8 hours... I know i can use mmin but the same is not working...the same only support mtime... This is the script i created..but the same is only giving 1 hour old..as I have given dt_H as 1 only...but if i give 8..it can go in -(negative)..how to get the... (5 Replies)

6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi, I need to delete all files, in a folder, older than 2010 that is 2009, 2008 ,.. files... Can anyone suggest the command for that,... Thanks ---------- Post updated at 03:29 PM ---------- Previous update was at 02:53 PM ---------- humm,.. ok right now I am using the following:... (4 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have an issue with a korn shell script that I am writing. The script parses through a configuration file which lists a heap of path/directories for some files which need to be FTP'd. Now the script needs to check whether there are any files which have not been processed and are X minutes old. ... (2 Replies)

8. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Hello, I have a script which finds files in a directory that are older than 30 days and remove them. The problem is that these files are too many and when i run this command: find * -mtime +30 | xargs rm I run this command inside the directory and it returns the error: /usr/bin/find:... (8 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I need to find out list of files which are older than specific date. I am using 'find, and newer' commands but its not giving the correct result. Can you please help to findout the list of files. thanks (2 Replies)

10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi All, Problem Statement:Find all log files under all file systems older than 2 days and zip them. Find all zip files older than 3days and remove them. Also this has to be set under cron. I have a concerns here find . -mtime +2 -iname "*.log" -exec gzip {} Not sure if this will work as... (4 Replies)