Re: a script to clean up all files in the last M minutes
From: Chris F.A. Johnson (cfajohnson_at_gmail.com)
Date: 11/18/04
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Date: 18 Nov 2004 18:08:51 GMT
On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 at 17:41 GMT, Damjan wrote:
> Matt wrote:
>
>> I need to write a script that takes a parameter minute M to clean up
>> all files in a folder that are older than M compare with current system
>> time.
>
> define older! access time or create time?
>
> anyway 'find' will do it (options -amin, -cmin, -atime, -ctime, etc...).
>
> find -cmin +10 -exec rm {} \; will delete files created 10 or more minute
> before now.
There is no "create time". There is access (-atime), change of
status (-ctime), and modifictation time (-mtime).
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