I have a folder with a bunch of files. I need to delete all the files created before July 1st. How do I do that in a bash script?
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I have a folder with a bunch of files. I need to delete all the files created before July 1st. How do I do that in a bash script?
I think the following should do what you want:
The first line creates a file which was last modified on the 1st July 2010. The second line finds all files in /path/to/file which has a date not newer than the dummyfile, and then deletes them.
If you want to double check it is working correctly, then drop the
-deleteargument and it should just list the files which would be deleted.