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creation date comparison of files
Name: monish_career Date: November 10, 2005 at 05:10:27 Pacific OS: windows xp CPU/Ram: p-4/512
Comment:
hello friends, its really urgent. i want to capture the creation dates of the files on my disk and then delete the files which are older by 3 days using unix scripting. i am not able to have any clue how to go bout the date capturing
Name: vicchai Date: November 10, 2005 at 05:59:28 Pacific
Reply:
Try this:
find /go/to/the/directory -mtime +3 | xargs rm
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Response Number 2
Name: monish_career Date: November 11, 2005 at 03:49:54 Pacific
Reply:
thanx for the reply but can find the script that how should i connect to the ftp server and then delete the files which are older by 3 days. i need this urgently coz there is a dire space crunch out on the ftp server and we gotto carry on the deployment as soon as possible. anyways thanx a lot for ur response as it solved half of my problem
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