Thanks everyone. Once again, you guys were great! I guess I didn't think
of find. Here's a couple of the first replies I received. BTW - It worked
great!
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Thanks - Brad Young
Take a look at the man pages for find; especially look at
find . -newer, or , in your case, find . ! -newer. Be very careful not
to delete any files that you really don't want to remove.
do:
find . ! -newer <some_file.name> -ls
before you do
find . ! -newer <some_file.name> -exec /bin/rm {} \;
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Thanks Sean Ward
find / -mtime +2 -exec rm -f {} \;
The "-mtime +2" part tells find to list only the files that were modified more
than 2 days ago, and the exec part does the removal. The curly braces are a
placeholder (so to speak) for the output from the mtime, and the "\;" is
necessary in find (don't know why).
I would also recommend doing this at night, as the find command is fairly cpu
intensive.
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Thanks Greg Harrison
Sure..you can use something like
find / -mtime +4 -exec rm {}\:
That will remove any file that hasnt been modified in more than 4 days.
You can also use
atime = access time
ctime = creation time
I like to use it in conjunction with print to keep a record of what was deleted.
Something like..
find / -ctime +4 -print -exec rm {} \; > /tmp/deleted.log
Anyway, check out the man on find to see what flags you can use to get the
job done.
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> I'm running Solaris 2.4. Is there a UNIX command to remove files based on
> their age. I can't seem to find anything. I want to remove every file
> that was created before January 23rd, 1996 for example.
> This has to do with a system running a news server that must have had it's
> expire go wrong at sometime. I'm finding alot of old articles that weren't
> deleted.
Sue Chichester
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