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From: Eckart Hofmann <bofh@muenster.de>
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Subject: Re: Unix Shell Script Question
In-Reply-To: <0B79B104AA51D311982F009027866BC502273D4F@SEHKG002> from "Sabhanam, Srinivas (GEP)" at "Apr 18, 2001  1: 3: 7 am"
To: Srinivas.Sabhanam@gepex.ge.com (Sabhanam, Srinivas (GEP))
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 07:41:12 +0200 (MEST)
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Sie, Sabhanam, Srinivas (GEP), haben geschrieben:
> 
> Could you pls. let me know how to delete files in Unix that are older than
> specified days?
> 
Have a look at the man page of find(1) to find the right options for your
purposes.

eg:
find /path/to/your/files -type f -ctime +number_of_days -delete

Hth,
	Eckart

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