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#!/bin/sh<br />
find . -ctime +$1 -exec rm -rf {} \;<br />
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for testing you should first use this<br />
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find . -ctime +$1 -exec echo Marked for deletion: {} \;<br />
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#!/bin/sh
find . -ctime +$1 -exec rm -rf {} \;




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for testing you should first use this

find . -ctime +$1 -exec echo Marked for deletion: {} \;





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Thanks danny, i've spent ages trying to figure this out !<br />
<br />
Simon,
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Thanks danny, i've spent ages trying to figure this out !

Simon,

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Hi,<br />
<br />
I know my around Linux but i'm a novice when it comes to shell scritping.<br />
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I want to add a few lines to a script that will find all files older than x days and delete them, <br />
it must start at a directory i specifiy and work on all subdirectories below.<br />
Some of the filenames may contain spaces and mixed case letters etc.<br />
I don't want to use perl or anything other than standard shell script commands.<br />
<br />
Background:<br />
Its a script to run on an FTP server that our mobile staff use for transferring stuff to and from the office. &nbsp;In the office the FTP server is just a windows share and so people tend to use windows filenames - hence the spaces etc. &nbsp;Of course they just wont keep the area tidy so i want to add a script that will remove everything older than 4 or 5 days.<br />
<br />
The FTP server is running under Fedora Core 3.<br />
<br />
thanks,<br />
<br />
Simon.<br />
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Hi,

I know my around Linux but i'm a novice when it comes to shell scritping.

I want to add a few lines to a script that will find all files older than x days and delete them, 
it must start at a directory i specifiy and work on all subdirectories below.
Some of the filenames may contain spaces and mixed case letters etc.
I don't want to use perl or anything other than standard shell script commands.

Background:
Its a script to run on an FTP server that our mobile staff use for transferring stuff to and from the office.  In the office the FTP server is just a windows share and so people tend to use windows filenames - hence the spaces etc.  Of course they just wont keep the area tidy so i want to add a script that will remove everything older than 4 or 5 days.

The FTP server is running under Fedora Core 3.

thanks,

Simon.



Simple Linux script question about deleteing files after x days

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