RE: [Nolug] Getting rid of old files

On Sun, 2004-01-25 at 23:16, Petri Laihonen wrote:
> YES!!
>
> This is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks.
>
> Ron, I'll stay with linux box. Otherwise yep. :O)

I didn't think you were going to pony up for the cost of an
Alpha + VMS licence!!!!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nolug@joeykelly.net [mailto:owner-nolug@joeykelly.net] On Behalf
> Of Dustin Puryear
> Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2004 12:37 PM
> To: nolug@joeykelly.net
> Subject: RE: [Nolug] Getting rid of old files
>
>
> 'man find'. It was probably something along the lines of:
>
> $ find . -mtime +7 -exec rm {} \;
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-nolug@joeykelly.net [mailto:owner-nolug@joeykelly.net] On
> > Behalf Of Petri Laihonen
> > Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2004 10:35 AM
> > To: nolug@joeykelly.net
> > Subject: [Nolug] Getting rid of old files
> >
> > A while back I saw a one line command of deleting files based on the age
> > of
> > the file. I don't remember whether it was on the list, or somewhere on the
> > web. This morning I tried to find one from the web, but yielded only
> > scripts. I'd prefer the one liner.
> >
> > Anybody remember if it was on the list (which post?), or if somebody could
> > post an example of this sort of command combination?

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