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From: Lucas Bergman <lucas@slb.to>
To: Peter Brezny <peter@sysadmin-inc.com>
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: find shell script problem
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> I would like to be able to automatically delete directories within a
> single subdirectory once they are more than three months old.
> 
> I've been reading the man page for date and find and have some ideas
> but am lacking in shell scripting knowledge.
> 
> my best attempt (which doesn't work) is:
> 
>   find /dir1/ \! -newer `date -v-3m` -delete
> 
> This however returns the actual date 3 months ago rather than the
> date of any directory 3 months ago.  I don't know how to tell find
> to apply this date to any directory it finds under /dir1/

Use the '-mtime' or a similar option on `find'.  Something like

  % find /dir1 -type d -mtime +90 | xargs rm -rf

is probably what you want.  Take care that you don't delete the
top-level directory, though.

Lucas


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