Re: how to purge the files that are older than 90 days

On 7 Sep 2006 09:18:05 -0700, "muddu" <mudassar.dba_at_gmail.com> wrote:

>Hi All ORA DBA's,
>
>I am in need of a unix shell script that will purge(clean up) all the
>files from history that are older than 90 days.
>
>Thanks
>Muddu.

This is standard Unix stuff, not DBA specific. Be very, very careful with this command.

find ./ -mtime +90 -exec rm {} \; -print

The above command deletes anything that hasn't been modified in the past 90 days in the current directory hierarchy. If you want a specific directory hierarchy, substitute that for the "./". For example...

find /home/oracle/personal -mtime +90 -exec rm {} \; -print

That command will delete everything under /home/oracle/personal that hasn't been modified in 90 days. Again, be very careful about where you run this command.

• Rich