We use Solaris 10 x86 and I want to use a cron job to remove directories +90 old. Currently I have the command below but it only cleans the files and keeps the directory. What am I doing wrong?
/opt/tesk/batch/kit/archive/* -mtime +90 -exec rm -r {} \:
There are several issues here. The script design is dangerous and probably needs a re-think.
1) It is quite normal to have a parent directory with a modification time older than the directories and files under that directory. Issuing "rm -r" on a directory based on directory timestamps could delete much much more than you expect.
See the timestamp on your root directory for example:
Code:
ls -ald //
2) Directory cleaning is best done from the bottom of the tree up.
Deleting files and directories updates the parent directory timestamp.
Depending on your requirement you may need a script to identify directories containing only old files and save a list of those directories. The "-depth" parameter to "find" will search directories from the bottom up. Then process each directory in the list in turn, deciding whether to delete the files, and then if the directory is totally empty whether to delete the directory with "rmdir".
3) Always test such scripts without issuing the delete commands until you are happy that you only delete what you want to delete.
Reply to amitranjansahu. The "find" with "-type d" was my first reaction too until I realised that issuing "rm -r" on an old parent directory could delete newer subdirectories.
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Using cron to delete directories 90 days old