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Old 12-23-2008
Detete File greather Than 12 Months
Hi All,

I have a temporary file which will appended with some records daily. After 12 months, i need to delete the old file and start the new file.

Can any one help me how to delete the file which having creation date more than 12 months?

I have a MonthYear in the name of the file. I extracted that part and compared with Current monthYear and tried to find the difference, but it is not giving the result as expected.

Can any one help me on this?

-- Raam.
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Old 12-23-2008
use find utility with mtime option then pass those files thru exec command to delete/move as follows,

find . -mtime +<time> -type f -exec rm -rf {} \;

NOTE instead of option -type you can use option -name and context/pattern of your file name.
Last edited by manas_ranjan; 12-23-2008 at 12:48 PM.. Reason: added NOTE
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