deleting old data

[DaWoo]

I have a quick question. I'm just getting back into unix so my command line is weak.
How can I delete say all my folders from 2008?
Or delete a certain month worth of folders? say Jan 2009.

[gogalthorp]

rm is the remove command use
man rm

to get all the options

[Lakshmipathi]

Please Refer this thread - it should help you to learn about it ( i guess you can ignore the name option which is specified below and change the mtime option to specific time period)

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/red...t-exec-rm.html


HTH

[DaWoo]

Thank you Lakshmipathi. That's exactly what I needed. My drive was filling up and I needed to get rid of the old files. I actually found my answer about 10 minutes after I posted this thread last night.

[Lakshmipathi]

Today i came to know about this solution:

To delete all files after specific date (say : 2009/05/18 12:00 pm)
first create a file.

touch -t 200905181200 test

then use it with find command

find /var/log/ -type f -newer test -exec rm {} \;

Hope this helps someone