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08-11-2009, 03:35 AM
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Delete Files In Directory By Date
Hey Friends,
As as Systems Administrator for many servers, I always come across the need to delete files in a directory by date. e.g. I have a podcast/video server that I have setup a rsync script on to backup data to another server. On the primary server, I need to perform a search for files and delete them using a date. I use the find command for this. I am sure there are other ways, however this takes care of business for me. This command will search and delete files that are 180 days old. This can be adjusted to what ever. So if you change the number in red. You can alter the number of days to find and delete. Code:
[root@podcast3 ~]# find /this/is/the/directory/ -type f -ctime +180 -exec rm -f {} \; -print
This is basic, However I use it daily. HTH Hope. This. Helps. You in your daily tasks. 
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08-11-2009, 08:36 AM
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Nice, -delete option is a bit faster (only works with GNU find version)
Code:
find /this/is/the/directory/ -type f -ctime +180 -delete
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08-11-2009, 07:00 PM
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Hey Thanks,
I am using this version of find on rhel4. Code:
[root@radio5 ~]# find --version GNU find version 4.1.20 [root@radio5 ~]# Code:
[root@radio5 split]# find /root/jason -type f -name "*.txt" -delete find: invalid predicate `-delete' [root@radio5 split]# As always, thank you for you support and opinion. Jaysunn
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08-11-2009, 11:58 PM
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I think you got older version. You need GNU find version 4.2.xx or above, which is shipped with RHEL5 and other distro. From my personal RHEL 5.4 box find man page:
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Oh and there is also tmpwatch command which removes files which haven’t been accessed for a period of time. See man page for details.
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