removing files that are 60 days old

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Hello guys I'm writing a script and I need some help. I'm almost done but I think I have a problem with my ffind command. I need the scripts to delete files are 60 days old and then append the filenames to a text file on the days they were deleted. If someone can help me I would be thankful.

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One solution: :slight_smile:

find . -name "*" -mtime +60 -exec echo {} `date` >> fnames \;
rm `awk '{print $1}' fnames`

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Here's an even shorter way. It lists the date once at the top of the section and then lists the files to be deleted:

date >> fnames
find . -name "*" -mtime +60 -print -exec rm {} \; >> fnames

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date >> fnames
find . -type f -mtime +60 -exec rm {} \; -print >> fname

if you only want files removed use "-type f" vs name "*"

put the -print after the ";" that way you only log files you CAN remove

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Interesting! I think because a semicolon has to come after the -exec option, I assumed that option always had to come last in the "find" command ... but of course the semicolon has a special meaning in this case and doesn't mean it's the end of the "find" command... :o

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from the man page.

-exec command
           True if the executed command returns a zero  value  as
           exit status.  The end of command must be punctuated by
           an  escaped  semicolon.   A  command  argument  {}  is
           replaced by the current path name.