Comments on: How to Delete Files Older than 30 days in Linux

By: Anoop

Anoop — Mon, 27 Sep 2021 00:39:39 +0000

find /home/*/* -name “*.tar.gz” -type f -mtime +30 -exec rm -rf {} \;

is there any way to exclude one folder and its files on above command

By: Tobias Heel

Tobias Heel — Tue, 06 Apr 2021 14:35:08 +0000

In reply to Rahul. I get the same error. Command: find /volume1/DeleteOldBackUps_TEST/Dest_Old/test-02/ -type f -mtime +31 -exec rm {} \;

By: mamadou

mamadou — Wed, 20 Jan 2021 11:47:56 +0000

In reply to Walter. find /mnt/backup/backup -name “*.x.tar.gz” -type f -mtime “+$(( ( $(date ‘+%s’) – $(date -d ‘2 months ago’ ‘+%s’) ) / 86400 ))” Returns errors: date: invalid date ‘‘+%s\’’ date: extra operand ‘ago\’’ Any idea?

By: Walter

Walter — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 13:24:14 +0000

In reply to Antonio. #!/bin/bash find /mnt/backup/backup -name "*.x.tar.gz" -type f -mtime "+$(( ( $(date '+%s') - $(date -d '2 months ago' '+%s') ) / 86400 ))" -exec rm -f {} \; #Use crontab to schedule as required

By: Antonio

Antonio — Wed, 21 Oct 2020 03:20:29 +0000

How do I write a script and scheduled to run monthly to delete backup files (x.tar.gz) 2-months old on located on /snap folder in a Red Hat Linux server?

By: Antonio Reyes

Antonio Reyes — Wed, 21 Oct 2020 03:18:06 +0000

How do I write a script and scheduled to run monthly to delete backup files (x.tar.gz) on /snap folder in a Red Hat Linux server?

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 15 Oct 2020 10:08:30 +0000

could just add the -delete flag rather than piping to rm

By: Junior_mahatma

Junior_mahatma — Fri, 24 Jul 2020 08:46:21 +0000

This only removes the files. What if you have a sub folders and you also want to delete these. What do you do then ?

By: JR

JR — Thu, 31 Oct 2019 01:22:53 +0000

How to delete files/folders from a directory older than a certain date?
Ex:- Delete all files and folders from a specified path older than 01-Jan-2018

By: Lakshmi

Lakshmi — Fri, 18 Oct 2019 07:30:19 +0000

How to find and delete files older than 90 days in linux?