Script for compressing files older than one year

Pengu010011 · 10-26-2004, 04:56 AM

Hi, i'm trying to make a bash script that will compress (gzip) all files in a folder (home folder in this case) that is older than one year (unused files, that is). Unfourtunately I'm still very much of a newbie, and would appreciate any suggestions.

Thanks in advance!

tredegar · 10-26-2004, 07:47 AM

man find will tell you how to find the files that are untouched for over a year (hint, 1year = 365 days, usually).

looseCannon · 10-26-2004, 07:53 AM

Part of what you need is going to be is the find command, which should be able to do exactly what you want.

Something like

Code:

find $SEARCHPATH -mtime +365 -exec \ gzip {} \;

Someone else might come up with a more elaborate way to do this, but that should work for you.