UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hello,
How can I remove files older than yesterday or the day before or a given day ...
Thank you in advance

To delete the files older than
find /path/to/dir -type f -mtime +3 -exec rm \{\} \


To locate files that have been modified since some arbitrary date use this little trick:

touch -d "13 may 2001 17:54:19" date_marker
find . -newer date_marker
To find files created before that date, use the cnewer and negation conditions:

find . \! -cnewer date_marker
To find a file which was modified yesterday, but less than 24 hours ago:

find . -daystart -atime 1 -maxdepth
The -daystart argument means the day starts at the actual beginning of the day, not 24 hours ago.

Narsing

Thank you for your advice. That's OK for me