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Old 11-05-2009
Script which erases files in Folder older than....
Hi!

Need a script which erases files in folder /home/appl/backup which are older than 3 weeks...

Any idea how to do that? I'm still investigating, but a little speed-up would be nice! ;-)

Thanks!
Michael
# 2  
Old 11-05-2009
Perhaps using find with -mtime +21

Check the manpage for find.

For example:
Code:
find /home/appl/backup -type f -mtime +21 -exec rm -f {} \;

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Old 11-05-2009
Jep, that is exactly what I was looking for!

Thanks!
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