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Delete all files in sub-dir +10 old
Name: ihosail Date: October 3, 2005 at 06:59:29 Pacific OS: Unix CPU/Ram: Unix
Comment:
Please help...
I need to delete files in all sub-directories that are more than 10 days old or delete all sub-directoires (entire directory) that's 10 days old (this is risky). I have an archive directory /archive and many subdirectories as /archive/Sep01, /archive/Sep02 etc. with month and day naming convention.
This command will delete all files that were modified 10 days ago: find /archive -type f -mtime +10 -exec rm {} \;
How do I use similar command to delete all files within the sub-directories of /archive as well?
Name: anupam Date: October 3, 2005 at 20:44:52 Pacific
Reply:
find command is recursive....it will delete all files in your sub directories of /archive as well according to the condition that you have given to it.
Anupam
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Response Number 2
Name: GordonBe Date: November 30, 2005 at 12:17:13 Pacific
Reply:
Also for dirs you need to set -rf flag for rm to force deletion.
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