Comments on: Delete all directories more than a week old

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 15:21:49 +0000

That is correct – I actually have it with a \n (newline character) but wordpress stripped it out of my post. using $i there is correct.

By: Dave Drager

Dave Drager — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 15:21:00 +0000

That is correct – I actually have it with a n (newline character) but wordpress stripped it out of my post. using $i there is correct.

By: Michael Steinfeld

Michael Steinfeld — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 15:02:55 +0000

I think you meant to have this ..

for i in `find /home/backup/ -maxdepth 1 -type d -mtime +7 -print`
do echo -e “Deleting directory $i” #you have “in” not “i”
rm -rf $i
done

also you can just use a find one liner:

find /home/backup/ -maxdepth 1 -type d -mtime +7 -exec echo “Removing Directory => {}” \; -exec rm -rf “{}” \;

Keep in mind that -mtime n is rounded up to the next *full* 24-hour period. So for e.g -mtime +0 would find the directories that have not been modified starting with the day before yesterday.

By: Michael Steinfeld

Michael Steinfeld — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 15:02:00 +0000

I think you meant to have this ..

for i in `find /home/backup/ -maxdepth 1 -type d -mtime +7 -print`
do echo -e “Deleting directory $i” #you have “in” not “i”
rm -rf $i
done

also you can just use a find one liner:

find /home/backup/ -maxdepth 1 -type d -mtime +7 -exec echo “Removing Directory => {}” ; -exec rm -rf “{}” ;

Keep in mind that -mtime n is rounded up to the next *full* 24-hour period. So for e.g -mtime +0 would find the directories that have not been modified starting with the day before yesterday.

By: Kumaran

Kumaran — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 13:50:41 +0000

Good one!!

By: Kumaran

Kumaran — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 13:50:00 +0000

Good one!!