Deleting older files of a particular type Post: 302357233

10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Deleting files older than a given date

Hi all, I want to delete all files in a directory which are older than a given date. I thought of doing it by creating a file by the required date by using touch command. And then i would use find command on that file and try to find files older than that. I searched the man and found a...

2. Solaris

Deleting Files Older than 24 hours

Hi, I am using Solaris Box, I need to delete file(cookies.html) from the path(/usr/temp) which are older than 24 hours(I want in hours, not in days) Can u provide the command for the above query

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Deleting files older than 7 days

Hi Guys, I want to delete folder/files older than 7 days. Im using the command below. find /test/test1 -mtime +7 -print0 | xargs -0 rm -Rf /test/test1/* which works ok, but it deletes the test1 folder as well which i dont want. The test1 folder will have a list of sub-folders which in...

4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Deleting specfic files older than N days

Hello, I am trying to delete specific files older than 7 days that start with FSTRnnnn (nnnn=sequnce number) from /home/users/userdir I.E cd home/users/userdir ll FSTR0001 Jul 8 14:20 FSTR0002 Jul 6 12:01 FSTR0003 May 25 09:45 FSTR0004 April 2 17:20 MSTR0034 Jul 6 12:45...

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

deleting files older than 7 days

Hi Guys, I am new to unix I am looking for a script to delete files older than 7 days but i also want to exclude certain directories (like arch,log .....) and also some files with extensions ( like .ksh, .ch, ..............) Thanks

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Deleting files older than 6 hours

Hi All, I am using the below script to find all the files in a folder which are older than 6 hours and delete all those files, but some how I am not getting the required output. find $HOME/Log -type f -name "*.log" -amin +360 -exec rm *.* {} \ can any one please check and let me know...

7. AIX

Deleting files older than 14 days automatically

Hi In my aix server under the location "/usr/sap/SAPXI/extract", I have a lot of log files. I need a script which is to be added in crontab so that the files and directories older than 14 days should get deleted automatically from the location "/usr/sap/SAPXI/extract". Please advise me....

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

find command to filter specific type of files older than certain date.

Hi I need to find the list of files in a directory and to do some specific operations based on the type of files. suppose in a directory am having .dat , .log, .err, .rej file types. i need to filter out .dat and .log only which are older than six months. i used the below query but the...

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Deleting Files Older than 1 hours.

How to Deleting Files Older than 1 hours. Base on SunOS. this file gen every 1 min. -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody nobody 4960 Jan 27 02:02 23_201301270201.log -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody amudu 2325 Jan 27 02:03 33_201301270202.log -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody amudu 3255 Jan 27 02:03...

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Need help deleting files one week older

Hi, I need to delete *.bad files which are 1 week old. How can I achieve that. I tried doing through below script but it deletes all the files. find ./ -mtime +7 -exec rm *.bad {} \; The below one works but i want to delete only files with .bad extension find . -mtime +7 | xargs rm

LEARN ABOUT MOJAVE

date::calc::pp

Date::Calc::PP(3)					User Contributed Perl Documentation					 Date::Calc::PP(3)

NAME

       Date::Calc::PP - pure-Perl plug-in for Date::Calc

SYNOPSIS

       You never use this module directly.  Use Date::Calc(3) instead!

DESCRIPTION

       You never use this module directly.  Use Date::Calc(3) instead!

SEE ALSO

       Date::Calc(3), Date::Calc::XS(3).

VERSION

       This man page documents "Date::Calc::PP" version 6.3.

AUTHOR

	 Steffen Beyer
	 mailto:STBEY@cpan.org
	 http://www.engelschall.com/u/sb/download/

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (c) 1995 - 2009 by Steffen Beyer. All rights reserved.

LICENSE

       This package is free software; you can use, modify and redistribute it under the same terms as Perl itself, i.e., at your option, under the
       terms either of the "Artistic License" or the "GNU General Public License".

       The C library at the core of the module "Date::Calc::XS" can, at your discretion, also be used, modified and redistributed under the terms
       of the "GNU Library General Public License".

       Please refer to the files "Artistic.txt", "GNU_GPL.txt" and "GNU_LGPL.txt" in the "license" subdirectory of this distribution for any
       details!

DISCLAIMER

       This package is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
       MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

       See the "GNU General Public License" for more details.

perl v5.18.2							    2009-10-30							 Date::Calc::PP(3)

10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Deleting files older than a given date

Discussion started by: rajugp1

2. Solaris

Deleting Files Older than 24 hours

Discussion started by: mazhar803

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Deleting files older than 7 days

Discussion started by: shezam

4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Deleting specfic files older than N days

Discussion started by: eurouno