Using find and rm command to delete files over x days old

forrestt · 11-27-2007, 10:14 AM

nx500, you're right, I also had to escape the ';'. I guess I copied the wrong line from my history and then forgot later that I had had to escape that as well. However, the quotes around the swirly brackets aren't to escape the brackets, they are to make the filenames with spaces get passed to the rm command as one parameter (i.e., the quotes get passed to the command as well and you get "file name" instead of file name).

HTH

Forrest

Huike · 09-03-2008, 06:41 PM

I was trying to do the same thing and found this post. After some play I found the solution as below:

find "c:\temp 1" -name "*.log" -mtime +6 -exec rm \"{""}\" ;

At least it worked for me in Windows XP SP3. Hope it will help.