I will like to write a script that delete all files that are older than 7 days in a directory and it's subdirectories. Can any one help me out witht the magic command or script?
Thanks in advance,
Odogboly98:confused: (3 Replies)
Guys,
I had raised a question about deleting files older than today in a specific directory and i got this as an answer
find ${ARCH_DEST}/*.gz -mtime +0 -exec rm -f {} \;
What happens when there aren't files that meet this criteria ? Can it delete any other directories ? I had a shocking... (22 Replies)
i have to delete files which are older than 15 days or more except the ones in the directory Current and also *.sh files
i have found the command for files 15 days or more older
find . -type f -mtime +15 -exec ls -ltr {} \;
but how to implement the logic to avoid directory Current and also... (3 Replies)
Hi all,
I want to delete log files with extension .log which are older than 30
days. How to delete those files?
Operating system -- Sun solaris 10
Your input is highly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Williams (2 Replies)
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
find /path/to/files* -mtime +15 -exec del {} \;the first section works
find /path/to/files* -mtime +15but the del command dosent... (4 Replies)
Hi All,
I am using below code to delete files older than 2 days. In case if there are no files, I should log an error saying no files to delete.
Please let me know, How I can achive this.
find /path/*.xml -mtime +2
Thanks and Regards
Nagaraja. (3 Replies)
how do i remove sub directories of a directory and all files which are older than 7 days by a single command in AIX. pls help me.
I am using command as
#find /gpfs1/home/vinod/hpc/ -depth -type d -mtime +7 -exec rm -rf {} \;
so i want to delete all sub directories and all files from the... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: vinodkmpal
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LEARN ABOUT HPUX
strclean
strclean(1M)strclean(1M)NAME
strclean - remove outdated STREAMS error log files
SYNOPSIS
logdir] age]
DESCRIPTION
cleans the STREAMS error logger directory of log files mm-dd) that contain error messages sent by the STREAMS log driver, strlog(7). If
the option is not used to specify another directory, removes error log files in the directory. If the option is not used to specify
another age, removes error log files that have not been modified in three days.
Options
recognizes the following options and command-line arguments:
Specifies a directory for the location of the
STREAMS error log files to be removed if this is not the default directory
Specifies a maximum age in days for the
STREAMS error log files if this not the default age of 3. The value of age must be an integer greater than or less than 3.
EXAMPLES
Remove day-old error log files from a directory called
FILES
One or more error log file or files on which operates. The mm-dd in the filename indicates the month and day of the messages con-
tained in the file.
NLS catalog for
SEE ALSO strerr(1M), strlog(7).
strclean(1M)
05-23-2012
find: paths must precede expression Usage: find [path...] [expression]
