Re: Deleting files from O/S older than 6 hours

On Nov 27, 2007 8:16 AM, Ajay Thotangare <ajayoraclel_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am using following command to delete files from o/s older than 24 hours.
> /usr/bin/find /u01/log/*.log -mtime +0 -exec ls -l {} \;
>
> Is there any way I can delete files older than 6 hours. I am using HP-UNIX.
> I tried using
> /usr/bin/find /u01/log/*.log -mtime +0.4 -exec ls -l {} \;

If HP/UX supports the -mmin find argument: /usr/bin/find /u01/log/*.log -mmin +240 | xargs ls -ld

BTW, please stop using the '-exec' argument unless absolutely necessary. every file found causes -exec to fork a shell to run ls - very, very, very slow.

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