Comments on: how to remove 7 days back files using unix http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/how-to-remove-7-days-back-files-using-unix/ Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:25:58 +0000 hourly 1 By: petkoa http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/how-to-remove-7-days-back-files-using-unix/#comment-74076 petkoa Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:43:19 +0000 #comment-74076 Well, I’m not native English speaker and it’s not quite clear to me what means “remove 7 days back files” – files older than 7 days, or files created during the last 7 days?

OK, one will “only” change the sign of mtime argument (and better do it before running find with -exec rm…)

I’d also like to mention -mmin parameter to find: granularity will increase from days (mtime, ctime) to minutes ( mmin, cmin)

Good luck,

Petko A.

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