Re: Shell Scripting Question.

[Randy Kelsoe <rkelsoe@xxxxxxx>]

Dan de Haan wrote:

> I have a simple shell script that runs from cron and makes a backup of some
> filed to another PC via NFS.  I want to have it automatically delete old
> backups form the NFS server.  How would I do that, is there a delete files
> older then N days command?
>
> 	-Dan
/usr/bin/find . -atime +10 -exec rm -f {} \;

will find all the files under the current directory and subdirectories 
that have not been accessed in over 10 days, then delete them.
Use with caution! You might want to try this on a test directory first, 
to make sure it does what you want. Also note that it will also execute 
on the subdirectories.....







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