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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers How to delete files over 30 days Post 96954 by blowtorch on Wednesday 25th of January 2006 12:58:45 AM
Old 01-25-2006
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Originally Posted by mahendramahendr
I don't think we can delete based on creation date, as unix don't store creation date, we can do based on the modified date only..

find $DIR -ctime +30 -exec rm {} \;
Mahendramahendr, to delete files based on modified date, you have to use -mtime. -ctime will give you the last inode change time, which may be later than the last time the file was modified.
 

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strclean(1M)															      strclean(1M)

NAME
strclean - remove outdated STREAMS error log files SYNOPSIS
logdir] age] DESCRIPTION
cleans the STREAMS error logger directory of log files mm-dd) that contain error messages sent by the STREAMS log driver, strlog(7). If the option is not used to specify another directory, removes error log files in the directory. If the option is not used to specify another age, removes error log files that have not been modified in three days. Options recognizes the following options and command-line arguments: Specifies a directory for the location of the STREAMS error log files to be removed if this is not the default directory Specifies a maximum age in days for the STREAMS error log files if this not the default age of 3. The value of age must be an integer greater than or less than 3. EXAMPLES
Remove day-old error log files from a directory called FILES
One or more error log file or files on which operates. The mm-dd in the filename indicates the month and day of the messages con- tained in the file. NLS catalog for SEE ALSO
strerr(1M), strlog(7). strclean(1M)
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