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Old 11-02-2016
Delete files directory
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necesito dejar en un directorio solo los archivos del dia anterio, como puedo hacer eso con una shell



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Last edited by RudiC; 11-02-2016 at 02:12 PM..
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Old 11-02-2016
Here is an example of code that will delete directories and their contents older than 2 weeks.
-type d says that you are deleting a directory and piping that to xargs with rm -rfv
means to force delete anything in the directory.

Code:
find /path/to/directory/directory_prefix_* -mtime +14 -type d | xargs rm -rfv

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Old 11-02-2016
Quote:
Originally Posted by gandolf989
Here is an example of code that will delete directories and their contents older than 2 weeks.
-type d says that you are deleting a directory and piping that to xargs with rm -rfv
means to force delete anything in the directory.

Code:
find /path/to/directory/directory_prefix_* -mtime +14 -type d | xargs rm -rfv

that code delete files or direct sub too?

friend in the directory have the attached file photo, without em, I Bargo the code below does not bring anything when I run

Code:
-rw-r--r-- 1 satverpv desa    2912 oct 24 17:38 1000169320160930.RSAT
-rw-r--r-- 1 satverpv desa 390936 oct 25 11:39 1000169320160921.RSAT
-rw-r--r-- 1 satverpv desa         0 oct 25 11:41 1000169320160928.RSAT
-rw-r--r-- 1 satverpv desa 390936 oct 25 12:34 1000169320160929.RSAT
-rw-r--r-- 1 satverpv desa         0 oct 26 16:27 1000169320160101.RSAT
-rw-r--r-- 1 satverpv desa 390936 oct 27 16:37 1000169320160922.RSAT
-rw-r--r-- 1 satverpv desa          0 oct 28 11:49 1000169320160927.RSAT
-rw-r--r-- 1 satverpv desa 396032 oct 28 12:24 1000169320161025.RSAT

satverpv(satdes) /u01/home/desa/satverpv/sat/dat> find /u01/home/desa/satverpv/sat/dat/*.RSAT -mtime +14 -type d

Last edited by tricampeon81; 11-02-2016 at 11:34 AM..
# 4  
Old 11-02-2016
If you are deleting files and not directories, then you want to use -type f not d. The first line will return the files found. The second will find and delete the files that you want. You can also try the third line to get the number of files found.

Code:
find /u01/home/desa/satverpv/sat/dat/*.RSAT -mtime +14 -type f
find /u01/home/desa/satverpv/sat/dat/*.RSAT -mtime +14 -type f | xargs rm -rfv
find /u01/home/desa/satverpv/sat/dat/*.RSAT -mtime +14 -type f | wc --lines

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Old 11-02-2016
Quote:
Originally Posted by gandolf989
If you are deleting files and not directories, then you want to use -type f not d. The first line will return the files found. The second will find and delete the files that you want. You can also try the third line to get the number of files found.

Code:
find /u01/home/desa/satverpv/sat/dat/*.RSAT -mtime +14 -type f
find /u01/home/desa/satverpv/sat/dat/*.RSAT -mtime +14 -type f | xargs rm -rfv
find /u01/home/desa/satverpv/sat/dat/*.RSAT -mtime +14 -type f | wc --lines



+14 means that the look from today's date to 14 days ago?
# 6  
Old 11-02-2016
I'm not quite sure I understand either of the posts #1 or #3, but if you say that the find command mentioned doesn't return anything, this is not surprising:
- -type d returns only directory names: none of your files is a directory.
- -mtime +14 returns names older than 14 days (in fact 14 * 24 hours): none of your files is that old; the oldest (24. Oct) is nine days old as of today (2. Nov).
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# 7  
Old 11-02-2016
thank you very much to everyone at the end serves me the solution

Code:
find /u01/home/desa/satverpv/sat/dat/*.RSAT -mtime +14
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