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:
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:
You can create these reference files with "touch" and give them the timestamp you need.
Hi,
I have a list of directories which contain old files that are to be deleted.
I put the list of all directories in a txt file and it is being read by a script
Iam searching for the files older than 60 days using mtime and then deleting it
But all the files are getting deleted... (3 Replies)
i am having a problem with writing a shell script to back up files for a specific month. the month and year are specified as paramters. so a backup of all the files modified during the specified month have to be made. for example if specify 200406 as my parameter, it should back up files that have... (3 Replies)
We have log files dating back to 2004. I need to write an interative script that will request the user for how many months he needs to keep the log files and remove all the remaing log files after that month.
Supposing we are now in June 2006 , if teh user request to keep log file for the last 3... (1 Reply)
hello
i need a way to list files modified in a specific month and move them to a specific directry , i mean somthing like :
find . -modifiedtime "May" -print -exec /usr/bin/mv newdirectory
thank u (1 Reply)
hello
i need a way to list files modified in a specific month and move them to a specific directry , i mean somthing like :
find . -modifiedtime "May" -print -exec /usr/bin/mv newdirectory
thank u (1 Reply)
hello
i need a way to list files modified in a specific month and move them to a specific directry , i mean somthing like :
find . -modifiedtime "May" -print -exec /usr/bin/mv newdirectory
thank u (1 Reply)
Hi, This is possibly an odd request to do with permissions as I seem to have tied myself up with these!
I have the following directory (see below) that contains files that the 'usergrp' user needs to be able to 'delete' files from.
drwxr-s--- 2 usergrp usergrp 512 16 Feb 14:37... (2 Replies)
Hello All,
I am trying to come up with a shell script to count a specific word in a logfile on each day of this month, last month and the month before. I need to produce this report and email it to customer.
Any ideas would be appreciated! (5 Replies)
Hi,
I need all file names in a folder which has date >= 10th of last month,
Example
: files in folder
AUTO_F1_20140610.TXT
BUTO_F1_20140616.TXT
CUTO_F1_20140603.TXT
FA_AUTO_06012014.TXT
LA_AUTO_06112014.TXT
MA_AUTO_06212014.TXT
ZA_AUTO_06232014.TXT
Output:
AUTO_F1_20140610.TXT... (9 Replies)
Happy new year guys!
I have a new question for you!
Ubuntum, Bash version: 4.3.46 BashI have a csv file, composed from several columns.
INPUT
x1 x2 x3 x4 x5
as 10 32 T 3
sd 50 7 B 48
af 18 98 D 25
fe 75 55 P 15
I want to cancel the strings where the x2 and/or x3 values are <=10... (6 Replies)