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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers XARGS and FIND together Post 302441442 by Scott on Friday 30th of July 2010 06:01:21 PM
Old 07-30-2010
Hi.

Did you try

Code:
find /myfolder/*.dat -mtime +60 | xargs rm

 

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