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Old 09-08-2008
MySQL Delete last 10 days logs
Hi

Can u please tell me how to delete last 10 days logs ..
# 2  
Old 09-08-2008
Code:
find . -type f -name "*.log" -mtime -10 -exec rm -f {} \;

If you want to keep last 10 days and delete everything older, write +10 instead of -10.

Best replace -exec .... by -print to see if it shows you the stuff you really want to delete.
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Old 09-08-2008
does the log text is put into one file or one file a day ?
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Old 09-08-2008
Thank u Zaxxon, its working fine..

find . -type f -name "*.log" -mtime+1 -print
if i use above command, its showing *.log files older than 3 days but it should give older than 1 day na...
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Old 09-08-2008
Actually it shows all files older than 1 day. So files older than 3 days are older than 1 day too.
# 6  
Old 09-08-2008
s ur right, but its showing the files older than 3days not showing older than 2 or 1st day files...
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Old 09-08-2008
it should give the files from older than 1 day ...
 
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