find and delete older file
Will Mc Donald
wmcdonald at ntlworld.com
Fri May 21 09:11:15 UTC 2004
From: "Agi Subagio" <agi.subagio at saranaasiaraya.com>
> I have a script that create a backup file in regular schedule (run everyday
> at 2 AM).
> But after several weeks, my harddisk is getting full.
> I want to delete older backup file that not modified/create after 30 days
> ago.
>
> I have used command;
> $ find ./test -mtime +30 -exec 'rm -f *'
> But it seems, the rm command is not work.
>
> How to do that?
You should use something like...
$ find ./test -mtime +30 -exec rm -f {} \;
Will.
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