Comments on: Removing all files older than X days http://tadek.pietraszek.org/blog/2008/03/19/removing-all-files-older-than-x-days/ Some random notes about computers, security, cool links and others. Thu, 15 Jul 2010 15:44:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: DJ http://tadek.pietraszek.org/blog/2008/03/19/removing-all-files-older-than-x-days/comment-page-1/#comment-34814 DJ Mon, 24 Mar 2008 21:46:28 +0000 http://tadek.pietraszek.org/blog/2008/03/19/removing-all-files-older-than-x-days/#comment-34814 <p>I prefer to use -exec instead, as if find returns an extremely large amount of data, you will run into limitations with xargs.</p> <p>find -atime +7 -type f -exec rm -f {} ;</p> I prefer to use -exec instead, as if find returns an extremely large amount of data, you will run into limitations with xargs.

find -atime +7 -type f -exec rm -f {} ;

]]> By: Yannick http://tadek.pietraszek.org/blog/2008/03/19/removing-all-files-older-than-x-days/comment-page-1/#comment-34551 Yannick Wed, 19 Mar 2008 22:00:06 +0000 http://tadek.pietraszek.org/blog/2008/03/19/removing-all-files-older-than-x-days/#comment-34551 <p>I usualy use -mtime instead -atime</p> I usualy use -mtime instead -atime

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