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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Delete files older than 1 year through FTP Post 302662231 by radoulov on Tuesday 26th of June 2012 10:47:49 AM
Old 06-26-2012
Or you could use Perl with Net:FTP (core module since v5.7.3).

Remove all files that are 365 days old:
Code:
perl -MNet::FTP -e'
    ( $host, $user, $pass ) = @ARGV;
    $ftp = Net::FTP->new($host) or die "$@\n";
    $ftp->login( $user, $pass ) or die $ftp->message;
    $ftp->mdtm($_) < time - (86400 * 365) and $ftp->delete($_) for $ftp->ls; 
    $ftp->quit or die $ftp->message;
    ' <host> <user> <pass>

Standard disclaimer: you should backup your data before running the above code! You may need to add a file name filter, change the working directory etc.
 

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SIMPLEFTP(1)						    InterNetNews Documentation						      SIMPLEFTP(1)

NAME
simpleftp - Rudimentary FTP client SYNOPSIS
simpleftp url [...] DESCRIPTION
simpleftp is a Perl script that provides basic support for fetching files with FTP in a batch oriented fashion. It takes one or more FTP URLs on the command line. The file(s) will be retrieved from the remote server and placed in the current directory with the same basename as on the remote; e.g., <ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/usenet/CONFIG/active.gz> is stored as active.gz in the current directory. The script properly understands usernames, passwords and ports specified as follows: ftp://user:password@host:port/path/file BUGS
simpleftp is an extremely poor substitute for more complete programs like the freely available wget or ncftp utilities. It was written only to provide elementary support in INN for non-interactive fetching of the files in <ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/pgpcontrol/> or <ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/usenet/CONFIG/> without requiring administrators to install yet another package. Its shortcomings as a general purpose program are too numerous to mention, but one that stands out is that downloaded files by simpleftp override existing files with the same name in the local directory. HISTORY
Tossed off by David C Lawrence <tale@isc.org> for InterNetNews. Rewritten to use "Net::FTP" by Julien Elie. $Id: simpleftp.pod 8357 2009-02-27 17:56:00Z iulius $ SEE ALSO
actsync(8). INN 2.5.2 2009-05-21 SIMPLEFTP(1)
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