linux command help

[chakytori]

Hi, on linux how can i delete files older than the current month (that is leave only this month's files) from one subdir and recurse every directory?

thanks.

[Roxoff]

This sounds like a homework question, so I'll answer a little cryptically. Take a look down the 'man' page for 'rm', (i.e. do 'man rm' at the command prompt) and look at how you limit what it removes.

It might also help if you look into the 'find' command, which can search directory trees based on file name, access date, creation date, etc. Read up with 'man find' to look into this.

[Lakshmipathi]

This sounds like a homework question, so I'll answer a little cryptically. Take a look down the 'man' page for 'rm', (i.e. do 'man rm' at the command prompt) and look at how you limit what it removes.

It might also help if you look into the 'find' command, which can search directory trees based on file name, access date, creation date, etc. Read up with 'man find' to look into this.

Hi chakytori,
Check this out this how to use find with exec
find - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

@ Roxoff -- yes it works like home work question

[papetova]

Hi, on linux how can i delete files older than the current month (that is leave only this month's files) from one subdir and recurse every directory?

thanks.

You can use:
find /{somedir} -mtime +30 -exec rm -rfv {} \;

I wouldn't recommend using it unless you ARE ABSOLUTELY sure you know what you're doing. A mistake could render your system useless.

[chakytori]

This is meant to keep older files in our forum script deleted using a cron job, our forum is simple and we just want to keep the current month files.

I think there may be an easier way since our script names the files 0704.txt (07 the year and 04 the month) so manually i just need to delete this files:

0706.txt 0707.txt 0708.txt 0709.txt

from every directory from the /home/username directory upwards because we have diferent directories for every forum on the site and each one keeps the log files on their dir, how can this be done?

thanks a lot for the help.