Frequent Question: How Do I Remove Older Than One Day in Linux?

The find utility on linux allows you to pass in a bunch of interesting arguments, including one to execute another command on each file. We’ll use this in order to figure out what files are older than a certain number of days, and then use the rm command to delete them.

How do I delete more than 30 days in Linux?

How to Delete Files Older than 30 days in Linux

1. Delete Files older Than 30 Days. You can use the find command to search all files modified older than X days. And also delete them if required in single command. …
2. Delete Files with Specific Extension. Instead of deleting all files, you can also add more filters to find command.

15 окт. 2020 г.

How do I delete files older than 7 days UNIX?

Explanation:

1. find : the unix command for finding files/directories/links and etc.
2. /path/to/ : the directory to start your search in.
3. -type f : only find files.
4. -name ‘*. …
5. -mtime +7 : only consider the ones with modification time older than 7 days.
6. -execdir …

24 февр. 2015 г.