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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting List and Delete Files which are older than 7 days, but have white spaces in file name Post 302936176 by MadeInGermany on Monday 23rd of February 2015 12:18:34 PM
Old 02-23-2015
Probably in your case -mtime +7 is sufficient.
But it would have problems with files that are extracted from a tar or zip archive, getting a time stamp from the past (or the future).
In this case -ctime +7 is an improvement.
But a regular file backup (or virus scan) can reset atime (for convenience), and ctime changes.
The following is robust with archives and weekly full backups: \( -mtime +7 -o -mtime -0 \) -ctime +5, and run daily.
 

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STOREBACKUPVERSIONS(1)					User Contributed Perl Documentation				    STOREBACKUPVERSIONS(1)

NAME
storeBackupVersions.pl - locates different versions of a file saved with storeBackup.pl. SYNOPSIS
storeBackupVersions.pl -f file [-b root] [-v] [-l [-a | [-s] [-u] [-g] [-M] [-c] [-m]]] OPTIONS
--file, -f file name (name in the backup, probably with suffix from compression) --backupRoot -b root of storeBackup tree, normally not needed --verbose, -v print verbose messages --locateSame, -l locate same file with other names --showAll, -A same as: [-s -u -g -M -c -m] --size, -s show size (human readable) of source file --uid, -u show uid of source file --gid, -g show gid of source file --mode, -M show permissions of source file --ctime, -c show creation time of source file --mtime, -m show modify time of source file --atime, -a show access time of source file It does not always work correctly when a file is saved blocked *and* non-blocked in different backups. In such cases, use option --locateSame. COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2002-2008 by Heinz-Josef Claes (see README) Published under the GNU General Public License v3 or any later version perl v5.14.2 2012-03-03 STOREBACKUPVERSIONS(1)
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