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Old 04-02-2008
Script to pick out files from a file which are older than 15 days
Hi ,
I have a file abc.txt which actually contains a directory and file list

-rwxrwxr-x 1 dmadmin mmasapp 334 Dec 03 2001 aafs_006.ksh
-rwxrwxr-x 1 dmadmin mmasapp 1270 Nov 13 2001 mcl_deposit_ftp.ksh
-rwxrwxr-x 1 dmadmin mmasapp 925 Oct 31 2001 run_brc_process1.ksh
-rwxrwxr-x 1 dmadmin mmasapp 1176 Oct 31 2001 run_brc_process2.ksh
-rwxrwxr-x 1 dmadmin mmasapp 976 Sep 27 2001 run_ccs_aggr.ksh
-rwxrwxr-x 1 dmadmin mmasapp 291 Sep 11 2001 update_vol_cntct_prf.ksh
-rwxrwxr-x 1 dmadmin mmasapp 1251 Jul 23 2001 load_pb.ksh
-rwxrwxr-x 1 dmadmin mmasapp 1264 Jul 12 2001 load_pb.ksh_20010612
-rwxrwxr-x 1 dmadmin mmasapp 1250 Jul 02 2001 jc_load_pb.ksh
-rwxrwxr-x 1 dmadmin mmasapp 1250 Jul 02 2001 load_pb.ksh_20010702
-rwxrwxr-x 1 dmadmin mmasapp 525 Jun 12 2001 call_pb.ksh
-rwxrwxr-x 1 dmadmin mmasapp 342 May 25 2001 load_esi_cycle.ksh
-rwxrwxr-x 1 dmadmin mmasapp 254 Oct 11 2000 lch.ksh
-rwxrwxr-x 1 dmadmin mmasapp 207 Oct 09 2000 load_census.ksh
now I need to write a shell script which reads this file abc.txt and picks out all files which are older than 15 days and puts them into another file.

Please help
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Old 04-02-2008
Go to directory where those files are and run this.

find . -maxdepth 1 -mtime +15 -ls
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