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Old 07-14-2011
Command to Count the files which is Older than 3 months?
Hi Gurus

the count of files in a particular Directory...

ls -lrth | grep -c ^-

can any one share the command to Count the files which is Older than 3 months

So please help me out in this

Thanks in Advance
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Old 07-14-2011
Code:
 
find . -type f -ctime +90 -print | wc -l

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Old 07-14-2011
If you want to do it for a specific directory you can also mention the path like below .

find < path_to_dir> -type f -name "*" -ctime +90 | wc -l
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