Bdfy
Reputation: 24621
Recursively delete files in directory
How do I recursively delete files in directory that were modified more than 6 hours ago?
This example work for 1 day:
find /data2/input -type f -mtime +1 -delete -print
Upvotes: 1
Views: 558
Answers (2)
norq
Reputation: 1434
Use -mmin instead of mtime. It will allow you to specify the number of minutes since the files was last modified. So for files older than 6 hours:
find /data2/input -type f -mmin +360 -delete -print
Upvotes: 3
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