How can I remove files in directory which older than 2 days?

How can I list files in a direcory which changed last 2 days?

Thanks

"MadUNIX" <madunix@web.de> wrote in message news:<c4ghok$2hcihp$1@ID-172702.news.uni-berlin.de>...
> How can I remove files in directory which older than 2 days?
>
> How can I list files in a direcory which changed last 2 days?
>
> Thanks

find is your friend.

"find . -mtime +2 -exec rm{} \;" will delete files over 48 hours old,
you might want to run "find -mtime +2 -ls" first, just to be sure.

"find . -mtime -2 -ls" will list files changed in the last 48 hours.

Steve

In article <42862645.0404010543.235d8171@posting.google.com >, Steve Nottingham wrote:
> "MadUNIX" <madunix@web.de> wrote in message news:<c4ghok$2hcihp$1@ID-172702.news.uni-berlin.de>...
>> How can I remove files in directory which older than 2 days?
>>
>> How can I list files in a direcory which changed last 2 days?
>>
>> Thanks
>
> find is your friend.
>
> "find . -mtime +2 -exec rm{} \;" will delete files over 48 hours old,
> you might want to run "find -mtime +2 -ls" first, just to be sure.
>
> "find . -mtime -2 -ls" will list files changed in the last 48 hours.
>
> Steve

it is faster to do

find . -mtime +2 -print | xargs rm

Mike <mikee@mikee.ath.cx> wrote:

>> "find . -mtime +2 -exec rm{} \;" will delete files over 48 hours old,

> it is faster to do
> find . -mtime +2 -print | xargs rm

Significantly faster ?
Do you know why ??


Yves.
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In article <TsZac.6240$Pk3.4302@pd7tw1no>, no mail wrote:
> Mike <mikee@mikee.ath.cx> wrote:
>
>>> "find . -mtime +2 -exec rm{} \;" will delete files over 48 hours old,
>
>> it is faster to do
>> find . -mtime +2 -print | xargs rm
>
> Significantly faster ?
> Do you know why ??

Yes, using the -exec find does an fork(2)/exec(2) for each file found.
With the '| xargs', xargs knows how big the command line is and sticks
as many files (read from stdin) on a single command line, then executes
the lot. Anytime you can reduce the number of Chapter 2 calls, the faster
your program is.

MadUNIX a écrit:
>
> How can I remove files in directory which older than 2 days?
>
find dir -mtime +2 | xargs rm -f
HINT: to check it
find dir -mtime +2 | xargs echo rm -f
HINT: to control the deleted files
find dir -mtime +2 | xargs rm -fe
> How can I list files in a direcory which changed last 2 days?
>
find dir -mtime -2 (for filenames)
find dir -mtime -2 -ls (for file details)

> Thanks
Regards,
Stephane

>
> Mike <mikee@mikee.ath.cx> wrote:
>
> >> "find . -mtime +2 -exec rm{} \;" will delete files over 48 hours old,
>
> > it is faster to do
> > find . -mtime +2 -print | xargs rm
>
> Significantly faster ?
> Do you know why ??
>
> Yves.

When you call -exec, a new process is started to deal with the command.
By defauld, xargs starts a process every 50 words, but it can be less
( ... | xargs -n200 rm, for example, is 1 process for 200 filenames
found by find).

Then it is really faster and lighter for the system point of view.

Stephane