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Old 01-04-2008, 11:07 PM
Steve Nottingham
 
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"MadUNIX" <madunix@web.de> wrote in message news:<c4ghok$2hcihp$1@ID-172702.news.uni-berlin.de>...
> How can I remove files in directory which older than 2 days?
>
> How can I list files in a direcory which changed last 2 days?
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> Thanks


find is your friend.

"find . -mtime +2 -exec rm{} \;" will delete files over 48 hours old,
you might want to run "find -mtime +2 -ls" first, just to be sure.

"find . -mtime -2 -ls" will list files changed in the last 48 hours.

Steve
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