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Delete Files Older Than 2 Weeks
Name: JessicaJ Date: February 3, 2003 at 16:29:09 Pacific OS: HPUX CPU/Ram: unsure
Comment:
Hi,
I am trying to delete log files older than a certain date using a Korn shell script.
The best suggestion I've found (on this board) is to calculate the date of two weeks ago (very difficult) and then touch a file with that date specified as the -t option. Then I can use if [ file1 -ot file2 ].
I'm looking for any other sugggestions and/or ways to calculate the day two weeks ago (doesn't have to be exactly two weeks).
Name: JessicaJ Date: February 3, 2003 at 17:52:23 Pacific
Reply:
I found another option:
find -mtime
Could that be used?
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Response Number 2
Name: Frank Date: February 4, 2003 at 01:59:05 Pacific
Reply:
Hi Jessica,
depends on what you mean by two weeks ago. If you mena two weeks ago from the current date than you can use find /Directory -mtime +14 -exec rm -f {} \;
to check if the files are the files you would like to delete use: find /Directory -mtime +14 -exec ls -l {} \;
If you would like to delete files 14 day older than a reference file you should use the touch and find . -newer solution.
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