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cron job to move old files to another directory

I am looking for

a.) a code to move old files
(i.e. older than 21 days) to another dir. (archive)

b:) a script (callable with cron) to delete
files (i.e. files older than 120 days)

Thanks

Nadia Barelli

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aurelio

Also , you can put it in the crontab by the following method , supposing you are using a standard sysV unix :

1) Create a shell script with the find code, e.g.
echo 'find / -ctime 21 -print -exec mv /newdir {} \;'>/home/er.sh

2) list the crontab file , using
crontab -l > /tmp/oldcron

3) insert a new line ; this one launches the script every half hour ; modify according to needs
echo '28,01 * * * * /usr/bin/sh /home/er.sh 1>/dev/null 2>/dev/null' >> /tmp/oldcron

4) modify your crontab
crontab /tmp/oldcron

bye

aurelio

nadia

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thanks!

The move method works but nothing happens
with "cd /home/html/geo/Archive; find . -type f -ctime +120 -print -exec rm {} \; >> Deleted.Logfile 2>&1

whats wrong? it finds the files but it does not delete them