Delete FIles older than a Set date or number of hours

[trancestrances]

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I am trying to delete fines on a remote server that has become very full
I am new to linux but this task has been lumpe with me
Have been told i have to mix find and rm so would it be some thing like this ?
to remove more than 24 hour old files. With comfirm

find / Desktop/ -mtime +24 rm -i

i just have no idea really but an trying to make this work

[Vergil83]

I think would be something like

find / Desktop/ -mtime 1 | rm -i

although I would look around the man pages of find and rm

[trancestrances]

No that don t seem to do it

$ find / Desktop/ -mtime 1 | rm -i
usage: rm [-f | -i] [-dPRrvW] file ...
unlink file
$ find / Desktop/ -mtime 1 | rm [-i]
rm: [-i]: No such file or directory
$ rm - i
rm: -: No such file or directory
rm: i: No such file or directory
$ rm -i
usage: rm [-f | -i] [-dPRrvW] file ...
unlink file

[trancestrances]

rm -i < `find home/ -mtime 24`
no
find home/ -delete -mtime +24
no
rm -i > `find / home/ -mtime +24`

[trancestrances]

now was also thinking
But that dont work either
find / -name *.old.* -print > /tmp/delete_files.txt

[spookt]

Try

find / -name *.old.* -mtime 1 -exec rm {} \;

You might want to try

find / -name *.old.* -mtime 1 -exec ls -l {} \;

first

Cheers

Spook