Delete Files based on Date

[Ed Wilts]

On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 10:30:23AM -0600, Kelley.Coleman at med.va.gov wrote:
> I'm somewhat hampered by my OpenVMS experience with this problem.  

VMS forever!!! 

> I need a script that will remove all but the latest five files in a
> folder.  There is only one file per day and I want to keep five days
> worth.  

There are couple of options - find and tmpwatch.  Here are some examples:
find /var/log/samba -mtime +5 -exec rm {} \;
tmpwatch 120 /var/log/samba
tmpwatch --nodirs --mtime 120/usr/openv/netbackup/logs/

Both will do what you want. You can look at the various timestamps to
see if you want to base your deletion on created time, modified time, or
access time.

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Ed Wilts, RHCE
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