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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Remove old files Post 302748619 by ust3 on Wednesday 26th of December 2012 11:44:07 AM
Old 12-26-2012
Remove old files

In my redhat 5 sysem , there are many files are generated to a directory, I would like to do the housekeeping as following , move the files elder than 90 days to a specific directory , then remove the the files elder than 180 days from this specific directory ,

I have a script to do it .

Code:
find /path -mtime +90 -exec mv {} /path2 {} \;
find /path3 -mtime +90 -exec mv {} /path4 {} \;
find /path5 -mtime +90 -exec mv {} /path6 {} \;
find /path7 -mtime +180 -exec rm {}  {} \;
find /path8 -mtime +180 -exec rm {}  {} \;
find /path9 -mtime +180 -exec rm {}  {} \;

it works to do the housekeeping , however , it is not easy to maint. the script , as there are many path ( over 70 ) , therefore , there are 140 lines in the script , can advise how to write a professional script to do it ? thanks

Last edited by Scott; 12-26-2012 at 01:06 PM.. Reason: Code tags
 

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