Re: script help

[Mike Quin <m.r.quin@stir.ac.uk>]

 "Chris Mason" <chris@net.ai> writes:

> I need to come up with a bash shell script that deletes all the files in a
> folder older than N days. I'm not sure how to test for file age so I can't
> get it done myself, can someone suggest a way?

use find(1) with the mtime flag, e.g.

find /tmp -type f -mtime +30 -exec rm {} \;

will remove all files in /tmp that are more than 30 days old.

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Mike Quin
Unix Systems Support
Systems and Networks Group, University of Stirling
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