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Remove old files from Dir > 60 days

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Hello, We are saving some files in the UNIX directory with the naming convention "ABC_yyyymmddhhmi.txt". Our requirement is to remove files from this directory which are 60 days old. Any help to script down this is very much appreciated. Thanks in Advance Thanks, Babu

Name: ghostdog
Date: June 7, 2007 at 06:34:23 Pacific

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find /yourdir -type f -name "ABC_*txt" -mtime +60 -ls use the above first. verify the files are found, then use find /yourdir -type f -name "ABC_*txt" -mtime +60 -exec rm {} \;

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