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hi
I am expecting a script that delete the files from a directory. The file should be deleted on 46th day from the date of creation. It's better if you use "crontab -e"

Input: file1,file2,file3 created on Dec23 say. These files should be deleted on feb10 approxmately. Note that my script should run everyday at Midnight12:05 and check the files in a directory specified.

Any help is really appreciated. Its really urgent.....Plz
Thanks,
Pavan.

You can't as Linux / UNIX do not store date of creation for any file.

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Thanks for the reply.

However, you can find a file last access tim,e using find command. Like display list of files 46 days old using find command. From the man page:
File was last accessed n*24 hours ago. When find figures out how many 24-hour periods ago the file was last accessed, any fractional part is ignored, so to match -atime +1, a file has to have been accessed at least two days ago.

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Hi vivek,
This is working fine if the accesstime is greater than 45 days. I have done this before using mtime.Thanks for the reply.

pavan.

Usually what I would do is create a script like so:

#!/bin/sh
#
# This will remove all files older than 46 days
find /path/to/files/ -mtime +46 -exec rm {} \;
#
Done

Then in the cron tab it should look like this

05 0 * * * root /path/to/script