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# 8  
Old 10-16-2017
Quote:
Originally Posted by Home
Actually, I'm working with a shell code so that it removes files older than 32 days in current directory(and not in subdirectories).

Here is my code, first I try to test my program by finding the right files and then add remove command:

Code:
#!/bin/sh 

for filename in /home/linux/txt/output/ABC_DEFGH*
do 
if test 'find .  maxdepth 1 -type f -name "ABC_DEFGH*" -mtime +32'; then 

#remove command should be here***

fi 

done 

exit 0

How can I add 'remove' command with propper options(I'm new in Linux)? Any suggestion?
I have a script that does something similar, and this is what I use, but mine is older than 15 days.. only changed to your search name terms.
you might want to keep your maxdepth, and change your length of days

Code:
find . -name "ABC_DEFGH*" -mtime +15 | xargs -i rm {}

# 9  
Old 11-04-2017
The glob /home/linux/txt/output/ABC_DEFGH* cannot filter for file age.
But you can do all with find, even limit the search depth
Code:
if cd /home/linux/txt
then 
  find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -name 'ABC_DEFGH*.*' -mtime +20 -print
fi

An old Unix find that does not know -maxdepth can emulate -maxdepth 1 with -prune
Code:
  find . \! -name . -prune -type f -name 'ABC_DEFGH*.*' -mtime +20 -print

The -print can be replaced with -delete if the find supports it, otherwise with -exec rm {} +
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# 10  
Old 11-04-2017
BTW - -exec rm {} + the + tells find it can run the rm command with more than one single filename as a parameter. This provides a performance boost when you expect to delete hundreds of files, since the process required to run the rm command (or other commands using this syntax) is forked (created) much less frequently.
# 11  
Old 11-05-2017
... is a performance boost in comparison to -exec rm {} \;
But nothing beats -delete!
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