Can someone assist I want to delete files in the following directory /usr/openv/java/logs/ which are more than 7 days old -rw-r----- 1 root other 426 Sep 26 09:34 root.jnbSA.3929.log -rw-r----- 1 root other 404 Sep 26 14:30 root.jnbSA.1165.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root other 1283 Sep 27 15:47 root.jnbSA.1818.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root other 403 Sep 27 15:50 root.jnbSA.2068.log -rw-r----- 1 root other 57072 Sep 27 17:18 root.jnbSA.12028.log -rw-r----- 1 root other 404 Sep 28 09:10 root.jnbSA.3762.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root other 427 Sep 28 09:17 root.jnbSA.4579.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root other 94409 Sep 29 14:09 root.jnbSA.22253.log -rw-r----- 1 root other 1058 Oct 1 11:46 root.jnbSA.21843.log -rw-r----- 1 root other 681 Oct 1 14:01 root.jnbSA.25458.log The following does not work find /usr/openv/java/logs -atime +4 -name "*.jnbSA.log*" -exec rm {} \; King Regards Junes

You need to use -mtime for age of file. The -atime option looks at last access date. And your name pattern is not correct for your filenames. find /usr/openv/java/logs -mtime +4 -name "*.jnbSA.*.log" -exec rm {} \;