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Started by Pan, Nov 20 2007 09:06 AM

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Pan
Posted 20 November 2007 - 09:06 AM

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The backup software we use is storing files in a directory and doesn't delete them. I need to delete all files that are older than 30 days. Is this possible?

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Posted 28 January 2008 - 06:32 AM

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You can add a command to the CRONTAB that will delete files that are older than 30 days. Here is the command:


find <YOUR Fully qualified path to DIR> -mtime +30 -exec rm {} \;

The +30 specifies the amount of days. Change "<YOUR Fully qualified path to DIR>" to the directory you want to delete files from.

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Posted 21 February 2008 - 04:50 PM

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What is a fully qualified path? I've heard that with domain names but never dirs!

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Posted 21 February 2008 - 11:38 PM

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The full-path, e.g. /home/user/some/directory
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