How to delete files in slot of 1000 leaving 7 days of history

ankitpandey · 01-23-2012, 12:39 AM

Hey all,

I want to create a script which can delete the files older than 7 days but in a slot of 1000. As i have millions of file to delete which i need to perform 1000 files in one slot then next 1000 files and so on. The start state should be 7 days before the present date. I tried deleting all the files after 7 days but it has thrown the below error so want to do it in slot of 1000 files.

error : /usr/bin/find: arg list too long
usage: rm [-fiRr] file ...

Please suggest on this.

Thanks,
Ankit

acid_kewpie · 01-23-2012, 02:11 AM

xargs is generally a safe way to do this sort of thing, as rm is invoked individually for each file passed to it.

find /path -type f -mtime +7 -print0 | xargs -0 rm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xargs

XavierP · 01-23-2012, 12:11 PM

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