[SOLVED] Find and delete option remove wrong files

ZAMO · 11-23-2010, 11:55 AM

Hi all,

I have a log pruning script to delete log files older than 15 days in a particular directory . But the directory has files older than 7 days and not 15 days . Am wondering whether other scripts are impacting , but verified that they are not ,.

Is there a way to locate, why that happens ? removing files older than 7 days instead of 15 days ?

Code:

find /mydirectory  -mtime +15 -print -exec rm {} \;

prayag_pjs · 11-24-2010, 04:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ZAMO

the directory has files older than 7 days and not 15 days

Hi,

If you are removing files in that directory using rm command then how will they will be in same directory and show as 7 days old?
Those files must have been something else not 15 days old.