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delete files in specific directory

Original Message
Name: legato78
Date: March 27, 2006 at 22:13:12 Pacific
Subject: delete files in specific directory
OS: unix
CPU/Ram: solaris 8
Model/Manufacturer: sun solaris
Comment:
i have a directory "ABC" with lots of old files and sub directories in it.
the issue now is i want to delete away files which are older than 15 days in "ABC" without deleting the files in the sub directories and without deleting the sub directory.
i tried using find command but it will drill down to the sub directory and delete files.
i have zero experience in scripting so lots of help will be appreciated :)


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Response Number 1
Name: nails
Date: March 28, 2006 at 10:01:28 Pacific
Subject: delete files in specific directory
Reply: (edit)
Unless you are using the GNU find which supports the maxdepth option, what you are asking for is not easy. Place this command in a script of it's own:


find . \( -type d ! -name . -prune \) -o \( -type f -print \) | nawk ' gsub("^./","") '

Now, if you are in the current directory that you want to search, it will only find the files in that current directory. For more info, check this link:

http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8925/ur0310e/


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