shell script to delete files older than 30 days 2

[ady2k]

I would like delete log files older than 30 days and use crontab to do it.
Any shell script expert can provide delete files older than 30 days script to me?
Thanks for advance....

 

[jmtuser]

You really don't even need a script, just add a one
liner to cron directly:

15 1 * * 1 find <pathname> -mtime +30 | xargs rm -f

or

15 1 * * 1 find <pathname> -mtime +30 -exec rm -r {}\;

Will remove all any files or directories under <pathname> older than 30days on Mondays at 1:15 am.

pathname of course can be a directory or files or wildcards, etc...

 

[KenCunningham]

No script required, just:

find <top_level_of_req_directory> -mtime +30 -exec rm {} \;

replace the -exec rm {} \; with -print to ensure that you're deleting the files you want first, as added security. HTH.

 

[ady2k]

Thanks a lot.

 

[jmtuser]

Yo Ken,
you just repeated what I wrote dude...

 

[olded]

jmtuser:

It's called simultaneous posting. It happens.

I gave you each a star!

Regards,


Ed

 

[KenCunningham]

Must check my $CLAIRVOYANCE variable! ;-)

 

[mrn]

Can anyone write a script that stops people from saying/typing Yo and dude?

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