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Operating Systems AIX How do i delete files older than 15 days in AIX? Post 302408956 by bluesteel on Wednesday 31st of March 2010 01:18:40 AM
Old 03-31-2010
How do i delete files older than 15 days in AIX?

Hi i have tried searching and googling, but cant quite get there

I need to delete all files in a directory that are older than 15 days

here is what i have tried

Code:
find /path/to/files* -mtime +15 -exec del {} \;

the first section works
Code:
find /path/to/files* -mtime +15

but the del command dosent

i know its probably really obvious, but im an AIX noob and not sure how to close it off

cheers for any help!
 

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