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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Delete files in a txt file Post 302968284 by Don Cragun on Monday 7th of March 2016 01:56:18 PM
Old 03-07-2016
Unless you have a list of files (as assumed in the code RavinderSingh13 suggested), you could try something like:
Code:
find /dir1 /dir2 ... /dirN -type f ! -newer trigger_path -exec echo rm {} +

where /dir1 ... /dirN are pathnames to the roots of the file hierarchies you want to process and trigger_path is the pathname of a file (not located in any of the file hierarchies you want to process) that has a timestamp indicating the oldest file you want to keep. (You can create such a file using the touch command using a -t option to specify the boundary date and time.) If the pathnames printed by this looks right, take out the echo to actually remove the files.

Note that if you use this with any file hierarchies containing files that are part of your system's initial installation, this can turn your system into a doorstop that will no longer run and won't boot. Don't try this if you don't know what you're doing. There is a huge difference between very old and not needed!
 

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