Would it be a problem to extract the file creation time from the file name and use touch to set the time correctly? You can then use find far easier.
Is the date format year, month, day, hour, minute, second, millisecond? You can grab that bit and make a decision on that if you calculate the date before you want to erase the files, something like this:-
It doesn't work with milliseconds though and relies on GNU-date. Are these a problem?
Does this get you close?
Robin
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I will like to write a script that delete all files that are older than 7 days in a directory and it's subdirectories. Can any one help me out witht the magic command or script?
Thanks in advance,
Odogboly98:confused: (3 Replies)
Hi all,
i have a simple question that i want to find out the 30 minutes older files and delete those files from the particular location(Folder)
Generally for this purpose used to retreive the files with "atime" command
For example: find and delete the 2 days older log files use this below... (2 Replies)
Guys,
My log files stored in the date format format below(log_20080714072942):
TIMESTAMP=`date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S`
LOG=/log/log_${TIMESTAMP}.log
I'm looking for a shell script which deletes all files which is older than 3 months from today.
Regards,
Bhagat (3 Replies)
I have to retain only 1 day files in my system an I have to delete all the other files which are older than 24 hrs. Please let me know the option I have to give in the find -mtime command. (3 Replies)
Hi,
I need a command for deleting all the compress files *.Z that are older than the current date - 5 days. Basically I have a directory where daily I meet some back up files and I want to remove automatically the ones 5 days (or more) older than the current date. How can I write a 'rm' command... (1 Reply)
I need to list and delete all files in current older which are olderthan 7 days. But my file names have white spaces. Before deleting I want to list all the files, so that I can verify.find . -type f -mtime +7 | xargs ls -l {}
But the ls command is the working on the files which have white... (16 Replies)
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