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Delete all files in particular directory

I want to find a files compile.logs that older than 90 days in /compile directory this can be achieved by using below command

find /compile -mite +90 -name "compile.logs"

and i get out like this

/compile/home/bob/work/para/build.ntb/compile.logs
/compile/home/meta/work/mac/eth/build.ntb/compile.logs
/compile/home/meta/work/core/qlo/hba/ds-x/port1/build.ntb/compile.logs

Now please advice how to delete all the files after build.ntb directory

Man page for find mentions -delete option.
Use with care.

Might depend on how you define "all" in the following - "how to delete all the files after build.ntb directory".
And, of course, which "build.ntb directory".

check it shown the exact dated files then move for deleted before delete check whether you are able to see the older logs

find /compile -type f -mtime +90 -name "file.log" -exec ls -lrt {} \;

Hi

I wrote script to find the files which older than 80 days and file name contains compile_dut.log

output should be like below
/compile/home/bob/work/para/build.ntb/compile_dut.log
/compile/home/meta/work/mac/eth/build.ntb/compile_dut.log
/compile/home/meta/work/core/qlo/hba/ds-x/port1/build.ntb/compile_dut.log

and i want to delete all the files under (that is what are the files along with compile_dut.log)
/compile/home/bob/work/para/build.ntb/
/compile/home/meta/work/mac/eth/build.ntb/
/compile/home/meta/work/core/qlo/hba/ds-x/port1/build.ntb/

Please verify my script and let me know any changes required here

#!/bin/sh
#find the files which older than 80 days and file name contains compile_dut.log
find /dv4 -mtime +80 -name 'compile_dut.log' > /dv4/80days.txt
#Remove 15 chars in path
while read line
do
echo -e "$line" | sed 's/.\{15\}$//' >> /dv4/delete-dv4.txt
done < /dv4/80days.txt
#Go to specified directory and delete all the files
while read line
do
cd $line
rm -rf *
done < /dv4/delete-dv4.txt
rm -f /dv4/80days.txt
rm -f /dv4/delete-dv4.txt

Try this:

Code:

#!/bin/bash

list_of_directories=$(find /dv4 -mtime +80 -name 'compile_dut.log' | rev | cut -d '/' -f 2- | rev)

for each_directory in $list_of_directories; do

  echo "$each_directory/"

# rm -rf $each_directory/*.*

done

...if you are happy with the output, uncomment the rm line