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No. That'll remove every single *.log every 2 hours. It won't care whether they're more than two hours old. Follow the logic on the script I suggested and you'll understand what it's doing why.

You're wanting to use find finer-grained time than basic find supports, so you need to tell it "older than something" instead of x ago. If I could've just used find by itself in the first place, I would have done so.
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