remove a folder created 3 days ago.

eduac · 09-12-2005, 06:49 AM

Fellas,

I have to remove a folder, who has been created a three days ago...how can do this with a bash script? or something like that...?

Bruce Hill · 09-12-2005, 07:45 AM

Gosh, I hope I'm not missing something here, but why not issue:
rm -rf <directory>

wanderingmind · 09-12-2005, 08:23 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Chinaman
Gosh, I hope I'm not missing something here, but why not issue:
rm -rf <directory>

The -r switch (recursive) is needed when removing directories
The -f switch (force) removes without asking separately about each file.

typing 'man rm' will tell you all about it.

sorin25 · 09-12-2005, 10:39 AM

Well, rm will work in such cases, but I think his problem was finding the directory created 3 days ago.
The command appropriate for that is find, switches -mtime and -type will enable you to find the directory created/modified 3 days ago

eduac · 10-17-2005, 11:15 AM

i found the solution:

Code:

find /directory/* -type f -mmin +2800 -exec rm {} \;

where:
-type f -> delete only the regular file's
-mmin +2800 -> File's data was last modified 2800 minutes ago.

thanks for all help