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Old 03-18-2010
Linux delete script in sub-directory
Under TEMP folder, it have many sub-folder, example"0015,0016,etc"
I need to discovery those file which are 2 days ago in this sub-folder , and list out to investigate, at the end delete all file in those sub folder, only keep the emptu directory. Thanks
# 2  
Old 03-18-2010
Code:
 find -mtime +2 -exec rm {} \;

# 3  
Old 03-18-2010
Try this ,

Code:
find /tmp/ -mtime  +2 -type f -exec rm {} \;

# 4  
Old 03-18-2010
Do not execute the "find" commands from the previous posts. They will delete a lot more than you want and could crash your system.

This script looks for directories with a four character numeric name, then searches those directories for old files. It then echoes the command which would be executed so you can test the script without deleting anything.

Code:
find /temp_folder_name/ -type d -name '[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]' -print | while read DIR
do
       find "${DIR}" -type f -mtime +2 -print | while read FILENAME
       do
               # Remove echo only if you are happy
               echo rm "${FILENAME}"
       done
done

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Old 03-18-2010
GOOD, THANKS

I WILL TRY IT
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