Date scripting

[Ben Stringer]

On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 18:05 +0000, Chris Norman wrote:
> Hi people,
> I need to check files to see how old they are.
> 
> How can I do this from within a backup script?
> 
> I need to see if they are over a month old, and if so delete them. How do I 
> get they're last modified stamp please?

find . -mtime +30 -ls

You can get find to delete them too - see the manpage.

Cheers, Ben