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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Delete a directory after X number of days Post 302440814 by leo76 on Wednesday 28th of July 2010 10:53:34 AM
Old 07-28-2010
Delete a directory after X number of days
Hi
How do I remove a directory which are some days old .

For Ex :
Code:
$ cd /WMID/data/temp/TxTest/Dev/txStore
$ ls -ltr
total 0
drwxr-xr-x    3 wmethods wmapp            80 Jul 21 03:36 0AE445C4
drwxr-xr-x    3 wmethods wmapp            80 Jul 21 04:00 0AE44664
drwxr-xr-x    3 wmethods wmapp            80 Jul 22 04:50 0AE4478B
drwxr-xr-x    3 wmethods wmapp            80 Jul 22 04:51 0AE047C2
drwxr-xr-x    3 wmethods wmapp            80 Jul 22 23:47 0AE44811
drwxr-xr-x    3 wmethods wmapp            80 Jul 27 02:15 0AE44DDA
$ cd 0AE445C4
$ ls -ltr
total 16
drwxr-xr-x    2 wmethods wmapp          1024 Jul 21 03:37 A192CFCC
$ cd ../0AE44664
$ ls -ltr
total 16
drwxr-xr-x    2 wmethods wmapp          1024 Jul 21 04:00 A191C022

I tried the below command and getting an error
Code:
$  find /WMID/data/temp/TxTest/Dev/txStore -type d -mtime +1 -exec rm -rf {} \;
find: 0652-081 cannot change directory to </WMID/data/temp/TxTest/Dev/txStore/0AE047C2>:
  : A file or directory in the path name does not exist.
find: 0652-081 cannot change directory to </WMID/data/temp/TxTest/Dev/txStore/0AE445C4>:
  : A file or directory in the path name does not exist.
find: 0652-081 cannot change directory to </WMID/data/temp/TxTest/Dev/txStore/0AE44664>:
  : A file or directory in the path name does not exist.
find: 0652-081 cannot change directory to </WMID/data/temp/TxTest/Dev/txStore/0AE4478B>:
  : A file or directory in the path name does not exist.
find: 0652-081 cannot change directory to </WMID/data/temp/TxTest/Dev/txStore/0AE44811>:
  : A file or directory in the path name does not exist.
find: 0652-081 cannot change directory to </WMID/data/temp/TxTest/Dev/txStore/0AE44DDA>:
  : A file or directory in the path name does not exist.

Any help would be great

Thanks
Leo
Last edited by leo76; 07-28-2010 at 11:55 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags
 

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