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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Delete directory older than n days Post 303046016 by mustfirst on Tuesday 21st of April 2020 04:40:12 PM
Old 04-21-2020
Delete directory older than n days
Code:
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drwxr-xr-x 2 dbadmin dbadmin 4096 Apr 21 09:44 2020-04-16
drwxr-xr-x 2 dbadmin dbadmin 4096 Apr 21 09:44 2020-04-20
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I'm trying to delete directories older than 7 days. The directories are created by date every day and there are *.gz files inside. Whevener I compress or uncompress the *.gz files, the directory modified date changes to the current date and when I run the code, it won't delete it. This is what I have so far:

Code:
find ~/delete/* -type d -mtime +7 -exec cp -r '{}' ~/test \;

 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

datefudge

DATEFUDGE(1)							      Debian							      DATEFUDGE(1)

NAME

       datefudge - pretend the system time is different

SYNOPSIS

       datefudge [-s|--static] at_date program [arguments ...]

DESCRIPTION

       datefudge  is  a  small	utility that pretends that the system time is different by pre-loading a small library which modifies the time(2),
       gettimeofday(2) and clock_gettime(2)  system calls.

OPTIONS

       --static, -s
	      set date as a `static' one. The above mentioned system calls will always return the date	passed	as  a  parameter  of  the  program
	      regardless of time passing. See EXAMPLES below.

       --help, -h
	      print short usage information and exit.

       --version, -v
	      print version information and exit.

EXAMPLES

   Basic example:
       $ datefudge "2007-04-01 10:23" date -R
       Sun, 01 Apr 2007 10:23:00 +0200

   Non-static vs. static example:
       $ datefudge "2007-04-01 10:23" sh -c "sleep 3; date -R"
       Sun, 01 Apr 2007 10:23:03 +0200
       $ datefudge --static "2007-04-01 10:23" sh -c "sleep 3; date -R"
       Sun, 01 Apr 2007 10:23:00 +0200

AUTHOR

       Written by Matthias Urlichs <smurf@noris.de>. Modified by Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org>.

BUGS

       There is no attempt to make this change undetectable by the program.  In particular, file modification times are not modified.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2003 by Matthias Urlichs.
       Copyright (C) 2008-2011 by Robert Luberda.

       There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.	You may redistribute copies of datefudge under the
       terms of the GNU General Public License.
       For more information about these matters, see the file named COPYING.

SEE ALSO

       ld.so(1), time(2), gettimeofday(2), clock_gettime(2)

datefudge 1.17							  June 23th, 2011						      DATEFUDGE(1)
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