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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Three month old specific files deletion Post 302916420 by bakunin on Wednesday 10th of September 2014 02:40:04 AM
Old 09-10-2014
Quote:
Originally Posted by nag_sathi
I need to delete 3 month old files in my logpath.
Please specify what exactly you mean by "3 month old":

exactly 3 months/90 days?
3 months/90 days and older?
3 months / 90 days and younger?

The command you wrote:

Code:
find .  -mtime +90

selects the second variant (90 days and older), which might not be what you want.

If you want to specify an exact timeframe (only files older than a certain point in time and younger than a certain other point in time) you can use two reference files with the "-newer" clause:

Code:
find /some/path -newer referencefile1 ! -newer referencefile2

You can create these reference files with "touch" and give them the timestamp you need.

I hope this helps.

bakunin
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atprint(3)						       AtFS Toolkit Library							atprint(3)

NAME
atWriteStatus, atWriteMode, atWriteDate, atWriteName, atScanStatus - print and scan special attribute values SYNOPSIS
#include <atfs.h> #include <atfstk.h> char*atWriteStatus (Af_key *aso; int verbose); char*atWriteMode (Af_key *aso); char*atWriteDate (Af_key *aso, char *dateAttribute); char*atWriteName (Af_key *aso, char *path); int atScanStatus (char *statusStr); DESCRIPTION
atWriteStatus returns a string representation of Asos AF_STATE attribute. With the verbose argument TRUE, atWriteStatus returns a long (8 character) status name. Otherwise, on FALSE, it returns a one character short representation. The result value is a statically defined string in any case. atWriteMode generates a ls -l(1) like (e.g. -rwxr-xr-x) string representation of the AF_MODE attribute. It returns its result in static memory, which will be overwritten on subsequent calls. atWriteDate produces a date string from the given dateAttribute to be used for ls -l(1) like output (e.g. Jan 8 11:07 or Jul 10 1992). The format of the date string depends on the value of the date attribute. The string is always 12 characters long and begins with the month and day. For dates younger than 6 months, the third field is the time, for dates older than 6 months, the year. The result string resides in static memory, which will be overwritten on subsequent calls. atWriteName generates a bound pathname from path and aso. atScanStatus converts an status string to an internal numeric status value. It understands various abbreviations, including the one charac- ter status strings generated by atWriteStatus. .BUGS The format switch in afWriteDate (for dates older than six months) does not happen at exactly the right time. It may be a few days later. AtFStk-1.12 Fri Jun 25 16:39:43 1993 atprint(3)
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