Login or Register to Ask a Question and Join Our Community


UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

delete the unused file

 
Thread Tools Search this Thread
Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers delete the unused file
# 1  
Old 10-18-2007
delete the unused file
Hi All,

Can you please let me know how to delete any files that have not been accessed in the past 28 days in a directory.


Thanks,
Arun
# 2  
Old 10-18-2007
First type ...
man find
... and then read up on the expression -atime ? .

That should get you started. Smilie

Cheers,
Cameron
# 3  
Old 10-18-2007
If you can , Can you please send me the script aswell.

Thanks,
Arun
# 4  
Old 10-18-2007
Hi.

The page at Find command with examples & descriptions (amitsharma.linuxbloggers.com) has a number of examples on using find ... cheers, drl
 
Login or Register to Ask a Question

Previous Thread | Next Thread

8 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers

How to remove unused html codes from the file using UNIX?

Hi All, We have a HTML source which will be processed using a informatica workflow. In between these two we have a Unix script which transforms the file. We are getting an error from past week in the informatica saying invalid format, because the file has unused html reference (0-8,14-31 etc)... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: karthik adiga
2 Replies

2. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Detecting unused variables...

Hi guys... The first active code line in AudioScope.sh is set -u . This causes a complete exit if a variable is used/found but has not been allocated at the start of the program. However, apart from writing code to do the task, is there a switch to to check which variables have been... (17 Replies)
Discussion started by: wisecracker
17 Replies

3. Programming

What Unix do with unused shared memory?

Hello, When creating shared memory in C, should be remove shared memory with shmctl function when don't need it. If it didn't remove, occupied shared memory stay and remain. If we create shared memory repeatedly without removing unusable shared memory, /dev/shm will full. Does Unix or... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: pronetin
1 Replies

4. Solaris

unused disk space

i Have alloted 20G in my vmware for solaris 10, upon installation, and some distribution of disk space to /,/opt,swap i just use 19G. Can i still use the 1G? How? how to see the 1G? that i did not use? how can i use it? appreciate your responce (17 Replies)
Discussion started by: kenshinhimura
17 Replies

5. HP-UX

HP-UX using unused HDD space

Hello, I have a system with HP-UX 11.23 installed on it. There are ~36GB of unused space on the HDD. I did a very basic installation, and it created the usual volume group /dev/vg00. When I look at the output of ioscan -funC disk, I see this (and more, but irrelevant to this post): disk ... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: goon12
1 Replies

6. AIX

how to clean Unused semaphore??

How can i clean up my unused semaphore??? (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: abhishek27
4 Replies

7. AIX

unused storage on AIX 4.3

Hi, How do I query for unused partition in AIX 4.3 with DAS and SAA storage? I know most unix administrator don't put all the capacity on the system at once. thanks, vene (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: venerayan
1 Replies

8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

How do I get the unused space?

One of my Solaris 8 machines hd was about to die. So I used g4u to create an image of the 9gb drive and I put it in a 36gb drive. That solved my dieing hd problem. But.... How do I get my machine to see the unused 27gb of space? Any help would be greatly appreciated. (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: Spyzic
1 Replies
Login or Register to Ask a Question