Re^2: Deleting old files from directory

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To handle spaces in filenames:

find <directory> -type f -mtime +10 -name "*some*pattern*.txt" -exec r
+m -f '{}' \;
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On first run(s), you should consider using ls -l instead of rm -f.

I see you've used -ctime; here are the differences among Unix timestamps:

Access Time (atime) - time that the file was last accessed (e.g. read) ~~or written to~~.
Modify Time (mtime) - time the actual contents of the file were last modified.
Change Time (ctime) - the time that the inode information (permissions, name, etc., i.e. the metadata) was last modified.

Update: atime info corrected; for more see man 2 stat.

Have a nice day, j

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Re^3: Deleting old files from directory by chrestomanci (Priest) on Sep 28, 2011 at 08:57 UTC
I use an explicit pipe to xargs instead of using the built in delete action, because that way it is easier to check I am deleting the correct files, as I can use ls on the end of the xargs command instead of rm. Another way to handle spaces in filenames is to configure find to separate output with nulls instead of spaces, and then have xargs expect those nulls. `find <directory> <conditions> -print0 \| xargs -0 ls -l`	[reply] [d/l]

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Re^3: Deleting old files from directory
by chrestomanci (Priest) on Sep 28, 2011 at 08:57 UTC

I use an explicit pipe to xargs instead of using the built in delete action, because that way it is easier to check I am deleting the correct files, as I can use ls on the end of the xargs command instead of rm.

Another way to handle spaces in filenames is to configure find to separate output with nulls instead of spaces, and then have xargs expect those nulls.

find <directory> <conditions> -print0 | xargs -0 ls -l

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