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From: Paul Branston <apbran@rannoch.demon.co.uk>
To: David Okeby <david@okeby.com>
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Subject: Re: shell script to remove dated files
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On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 05:31:44AM +0800, David Okeby wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> How do I write a shell script that removes old files?  Say something of the
> order of two weeks old.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> David
> david@okeby.com
> 

have a read at the find man page. You need somethimg like

find /path -mtime +14 -exec rm {} \;

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