Delete Files Older Than One year, older than one month,older than six month,older than 7days on Linux

Posted by bput4all on June 1, 2016 · 1 Comment 

We can do it using this command

find /path/to/files* -mtime +365 -exec rm {} \;

How it works..

/path/to/files* is the path to the  files to be deleted.

-mtime is used to specify the number of days old that the file is. +365 will find files older than 365 days which is one year.

-exec allows you to pass in a command such as rm.

You can also do it using below command:

If you are deleting files older than 1 year

find /path/to/files* -mtime +365 -delete

If you are deleting files older than 6 month

find /path/to/files* -mtime +182 -delete

If you are deleting files older than 1 month

find /path/to/files* -mtime +30 -delete

If you are deleting files older than 7 days

find /path/to/files* -mtime +7 -delete
 
 

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One Response to “Delete Files Older Than One year, older than one month,older than six month,older than 7days on Linux”
  1. Tom BUMAREC says:
    August 14, 2019 at 7:21 pm

    Great post! Thak you! Here is another option. Specify the date from which we want to delete the files:

    find /SYSADMIT/* -type f -not -newermt “AAAA:MM:DD HH:MI:SS” -delete

    Extracted from: https://www.sysadmit.com/2019/08/linux-borrar-ficheros-por-fecha.html

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