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Old 05-13-2004
problem deleting date-time stamped file in a directory
I have a number of files of the format filename.xfr_mmddyy_%H%M%S which i get in a specified directory daily. Now i want to search in the specified directory & delete the files which are more than 2 days old .So I use a command
find $DIR/backup/* -ctime +2 -exec rm -f {} \;
But after executing this today say on May 11 ,I still have many files of May 7 & May 8.
Kindly tell me what this ctime exactly does and please tell me how I can solve this problem.

Thanks
Dharmesh Tripathi
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Old 05-13-2004
Try using -mtime rather than -ctime. "ls -l" shows mtime. "ls -lc" would show ctime. You're looking at one timestamp and testing on another.
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