CODEWITHSUNDEEP
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user1910748
user1910748

Reputation: 37

Trying to remove a file and its parent directories

I've got a script that finds files within folders older than 30 days:

find /my/path/*/README.txt -mtime +30

that'll then produce a result such as

/my/path/jobs1/README.txt
/my/path/job2/README.txt
/my/path/job3/README.txt

Now the part I'm stuck at is I'd like to remove the folder + files that are older than 30 days. 

 find /my/path/*/README.txt -mtime +30 -exec rm -r {} \;

doesn't seem to work. It's only removing the readme.txt file

so ideally I'd like to just remove /job1, /job2, /job3 and any nested files

Can anyone point me in the right direction ?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 208

Answers (2)

Fraser11
Fraser11

Reputation: 1

You can just run the following command in order to recursively remove directories modified more than 30 days ago.

find /my/path/ -type d -mtime +30 -exec rm -rf {} \;

Upvotes: 0

konsolebox
konsolebox

Reputation: 75588

This would be a safer way:

find /my/path/ -mindepth 2 -maxdepth 2 -type f -name 'README.txt' -mtime +30 -printf '%h\n' | xargs echo rm -r

Remove echo if you find it already correct after seeing the output.

With that you use printf '%h\n' to get the directory of the file, then use xargs to process it.

Upvotes: 1

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