[K12OSN] OT: Scripting Question

[Dan Young]

Calvin Dodge wrote:
> On 11/30/06, Jim Kronebusch <jim at winonacotter.org> wrote:
>> I hate to post another scripting question out here again, but you guys
>> are so
>> darn good it would be a shame not to :-)
>>
>> I have a folder full of files, I need a script that deletes any files
>> in that
>> folder that are more than 30 days old.  Sort of an automatic pruning. 
>> I will
> 
> find /FOLDERNAME -type f -mtime +30 -exec rm -f {} ';'

Fun trivia: xargs is faster than -exec'ing on every file. It will delete
the files together with one invocation of "rm" (or in optimally sized
chunks if you're deleting _lots_ of files):

find /FOLDERNAME -type -f -mtime +30 -print0 | xargs -0 rm -f

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Dan Young <dyoung at mesd.k12.or.us>
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