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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Deleting files older than a given date Post 32653 by rajugp1 on Tuesday 3rd of December 2002 09:22:14 AM
Old 12-03-2002
Deleting files older than a given date

Hi all,

I want to delete all files in a directory which are older than a given date.

I thought of doing it by creating a file by the required date by using touch command. And then i would use find command on that file and try to find files older than that.

I searched the man and found a newer option for find command.
But i didn't get the opposite of it (i would like to find older files)

Can anyone please tell me the easiest way to do that?

Thanks in advance,
raju
 

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RADDEPEND(1)						      General Commands Manual						      RADDEPEND(1)

NAME
raddepend - find RADIANCE scene dependencies SYNOPSIS
raddepend file .. DESCRIPTION
Raddepend uses getbbox(1) to expand scene file arguments and find file dependencies for make(1) or rad(1). Raddepend looks only in the current directory, so dependencies hidden elsewhere in the filesystem will not be found or named. The output is the name of files, one per line, that were accessed during the expansion of the input file arguments. The file arguments are excluded from the list. If no input files are given, the standard input is read. AUTHOR
Greg Ward BUGS
On some older NFS systems, the file access dates are not updated promptly. As a result, raddepend may not be 100% reliable on these sys- tems. If the output seems to be missing essential files, this is no doubt why. The only fix is to put in a longer sleep time between the getbbox call and the final ls(1). SEE ALSO
make(1), oconv(1), rad(1), xform(1) RADIANCE
4/15/94 RADDEPEND(1)
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