Simple script to clean up old file

rbeckett · 09-09-2004, 01:58 PM

I am looking for a way to clean up certain files and directories that are older than a certain number of days. Is there a script available somewhere that can help me with this. I need it to recursively check a disk for files that are older than, say 60 days and then either delete them or move there someplace else. Being new to teh scripting thing I have no idea how to accomplish this. Can anyone help?

acid_kewpie · 09-09-2004, 02:26 PM

remove all ".log" (case insensitive) files recursively inside "/the/dir/to/start/at/" older that 60 days

Code:

find /the/dir/to/start/at/ -iname '*.log' -ctime +60 -exec rm {} \;

rbeckett · 09-09-2004, 02:38 PM

Thanks Chris

So to move a file instead of deleting it I would just change rm to mv and then my location?