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econ · 08-01-2005, 08:31 PM

I am going to setup a cron job to delete all directories over one week old.

Is this the proper command to include?

find . -mtime +7 -exec ls -ld {} \;

I want to proceed with caution... since there is no easy undelete with Linux!

08-01-2005, 08:31 PM	#1 (permalink)
econ Junior Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 28	bash script to delete all directories over one week old I am going to setup a cron job to delete all directories over one week old. Is this the proper command to include? find . -mtime +7 -exec ls -ld {} \; I want to proceed with caution... since there is no easy undelete with Linux!