[NTLUG:Discuss] Yet Another Scripting Request

[Eric Schnoebelen]

Daniel Hauck writes:
- Objective:
- 
- Write a script that will read through a directory and subdirectories and 
- identify all files older than X days (let's just say 5 days if it helps) 
- and delete them.
 [..]
- I think to begin with, a "find /path/to/root/directory" will generate a 
- convenient recursive list of files to act on.  But after that, how do I 
- query and compare file dates against the present date and stuff like 
- that?  Or perhaps thereis even a better way to make it dig through 
- subdirectories than feeding it the output of "find"?

``man find''

Look for -mtime, -atime, -type, and -print or -delete.

find <top level directory> -type f -mtime +5 -print0 | xargs -0 rm -f

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