How to delete or listing file more than x days on linux

Jumat, 06 Juli 2018

How to delete or listing file more than x days on linux

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Some time as sysadmin we need to find or remove the old files that more than x days on our Linux Server, here are some command to find or remove some old files
Step 1: Listing file ( ls )
Command syntax

find /path/to/files* -type f -mtime +5 -exec ls {} \;
Note that there are spaces between ls, {}, and \;

Explanation:

  • find: the unix command for finding files/directories/links and etc.
  • /path/to/: the directory to start your search in.
  • -type f: only find files.
  • -files*: list files that starts with files.
  • -mtime +5: only consider the ones with modification time older than 5 days.
  • -exec ... \;: for each such result found, do the following command ....
  • ls -- '{}': list the file; the {} part is where the find result gets substituted into from the previous part. -- means end of command parameters avoid prompting error for those files starting with hyphen.

Listing the file and filter the file shown file that have modified time more than x days
[maswachid@dbserver backup]$ ls
MSCHED-2018-07-01_00-57-49.dmp.tar.bz2  LALABIM-2018-07-01_00-57-50.dmp.tar.bz2
MSCHED-2018-07-02_00-57-44.dmp.tar.bz2  LALABIM-2018-07-02_00-57-44.dmp.tar.bz2
MSCHED-2018-07-03_00-57-38.dmp.tar.bz2  LALABIM-2018-07-03_00-57-39.dmp.tar.bz2
MSCHED-2018-07-04_00-57-33.dmp.tar.bz2  LALABIM-2018-07-04_00-57-33.dmp.tar.bz2
MSCHED-2018-07-05_00-57-28.dmp.tar.bz2  LALABIM-2018-07-05_00-57-29.dmp.tar.bz2
MSCHED-2018-07-06_00-57-22.dmp.tar.bz2  LALABIM-2018-07-06_00-57-23.dmp.tar.bz2
MSCHED-2018-07-07_00-57-17.dmp.tar.bz2  LALABIM-2018-07-07_00-57-17.dmp.tar.bz2
[maswachid@dbserver backup]$
[maswachid@dbserver backup]$ find MSCHED* -mtime +5 -exec ls {} \;
MSCHED-2018-07-01_00-57-49.dmp.tar.bz2
[maswachid@dbserver backup]$
[maswachid@dbserver backup]$ find MSCHED* -mtime +4 -exec ls {} \;
MSCHED-2018-07-01_00-57-49.dmp.tar.bz2
MSCHED-2018-07-02_00-57-44.dmp.tar.bz2
[maswachid@dbserver backup]$
Step 2: Remove file ( rm )
Command syntax

find /path/to/files* -type f -mtime +5 -exec rm {} \;
Note that there are spaces between rm, {}, and \;
[maswachid@dbserver backup]$
[maswachid@dbserver backup]$ find MSCHED* -mtime +4 -exec ls {} \;
MSCHED-2018-07-01_00-57-49.dmp.tar.bz2
MSCHED-2018-07-02_00-57-44.dmp.tar.bz2
[maswachid@dbserver backup]$
[maswachid@dbserver backup]$ find MSYSSCHED* -mtime +4 -exec rm {} \;
[maswachid@dbserver backup]$
[maswachid@dbserver backup]$ find MSYSSCHED* -mtime +4 -exec ls {} \;
[maswachid@dbserver backup]$
Be careful with special file names (spaces, quotes) when piping to rm.
There is a safe alternative - the -delete option:
find /path/to/directory/ -type f -mindepth 1 -mtime +5 -delete
That's it, no separate rm call and you don't need to worry about file names.
Replace -delete with -depth -print to test this command before you run it (-delete implies -depth).
Alternatively, if you want to do the same for all files NEWER than five days you can running following syntax
Command syntax

find /path/to/files* -type f -mindepth 1 -mtime -5 -exec rm {} \;

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