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# 1  
Old 04-25-2008
Deleting files older than 7 days
Hi Guys,

I want to delete folder/files older than 7 days. Im using the command below.

find /test/test1 -mtime +7 -print0 | xargs -0 rm -Rf /test/test1/*

which works ok, but it deletes the test1 folder as well which i dont want. The test1 folder will have a list of sub-folders which in turn will have files.I wont know the name of these sub-folders or files. I want to delete these sub -folders and files and preserve the test1 folder.

Any one any ideas.

Help much appreciated. Thanks.
# 2  
Old 04-25-2008
Take a look at:
https://www.unix.com/answers-frequent...d-command.html
https://www.unix.com/shell-programmin...an-n-days.html
# 3  
Old 04-25-2008
another way:
Code:
cd /test/test1
find . -mtime +7 -exec rm -f {} \;

# 4  
Old 04-25-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by jim mcnamara
another way:
Code:
cd /test/test1
find . -mtime +7 -exec rm -f {} \;

When i try this which i know should work im weirdly getting

find: missing argument to `-exec'
# 5  
Old 07-09-2008
you might be missing -type f in the command.
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