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Old 09-04-2005
Find files older than 5 days and remove tem after listing

need help with this ...

Find files older than 5 days and remove tem after listing

list "test" file older than 5 days and then remove them
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Old 09-05-2005
I hope this isn't homework.

Code:
for FILE in `find /path/to/directory -mtime +5`
   do echo $FILE
   /bin/rm -f $FILE 2>/dev/null # Gets rid of directory or permission errors
done

 
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