Hello all, Iam having trouble on my linux VPS. I currently running a game server, and want to clear out old user accounts in the user directory. All the user (player accounts ) end with *.ini , I was trying to clear them out past 120 days old. here are the commands I was using.

find /home/ogp_agent/6666/samp03/scriptfiles/ZMA/Users* -mtime +120 -delete

find /home/ogp_agent/6666/samp03/scriptfiles/ZMA/Users -mtime +120 -exec rm {} \;

find /home/ogp_agent/6666/samp03/scriptfiles/ZMA/Users/* -mtime +120 -exec rm -f {} \;

I wasnt getting any error messages, it acted like it performed the cmd, but I still have player accounts that are older than 120 days. Iam using CentOS 6.5 x32 , can somewon tell me a better command to use, those commands is all I can find on google search and they dont work for me. thank you!
Mark

If you include an asterisk in the search key, enclose the file spec in double quotes.

Run the find command without the rm {} and see what find lists. It should list the files you want to delete. If it doesn't you condition is wrong. Test on a known set of files.

jlinkels

i dont understand, what would you type? the files are located here /home/ogp_agent/6666/samp03/scriptfiles/ZMA/Users/ , and the files are .ini files and i wanna delete them after 120 days old. thanks

jlinkels was trying to help you determine if your command was actually working as expected. However, your syntax is not correct. You can find many examples of how to use the find command on the web.

find /path/to/files -name "*.ini"

http://www.binarytides.com/linux-find-command-examples/