On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 01:17:34PM +0200, Piotr Grabowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| > How can I delete files with specificed date ?
| > E.g: I want to delete only 'messages.log.*.gz' of the year 2000.
|
| On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, LinuxKH wrote:
| Well maybe:
| $ find / -name messages.log.*.gz -ctime date_in_datetime_format -exec rm
| {} ;
Neater is
find messages.log.*.gz -mtime +n -exec rm {} ';'
The starting point of find doesn't _have_ to be a directory you know...
Also, it's probably more reliable to work off mtime instead of ctime;
the latter is last _change_ to inode, not creation time as many imagine.
Which means it gets reset also by acts like chmodding the file.
The +n above should have n equal to the number of days you want to
consider old enough. Say 210 for the 7 months back to 2000.
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