Kenneth: /* Delete files older than n days */

2019-05-06T20:19:35Z

Delete files older than n days

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== find ==

Find file syntax:
find [path] [expression]
# case sensitive
find [path] -name [pattern]
# case insensitive
find [path] -iname [pattern]

find . -iname "test"

man find:
-mtime n
File’s data was last modified n*24 hours ago. See the comments for -atime to understand how
rounding affects the interpretation of file modification times.

Time modifier:
+n for greater than n,
-n for less than n,
n for exactly n.

Find all files modified within the last 'n' days:
find [path] -mtime [+//-][n]

# to find all files modified today:
find /etc -mtime -1

Find all files modified within the last 'n' minutes:
find [path] -mmin [+//-][n]

# to find all files modified within the last hour:
find /etc -mmin -60

Filter (exclude) certain folders:
find . -type d -not -path "./badpath/*" -not "./badpath2/*" -print

Find files between two dates: [https://askubuntu.com/questions/191044/how-to-find-files-between-two-dates-using-find]
find Your_Mail_Dir/ -newermt "2011-01-01" ! -newermt "2011-12-31"

== find large files ==

find files larger than 100M:

# RHEL
find / -type f -size +100M -not -path "/proc/*" -not -path "/sys/*" -exec ls -lh {} \; | awk '{ print $9 ": " $5 }'

# Ubuntu
find / -type f -size +100M -not -path "/proc/*" -not -path "/sys/*" -exec ls -lh {} \; | awk '{ print $8 ": " $5 }'

== find small files ==

Find files smaller than 500 bytes:

find ~ -size -500b

== Find Executable Files ==

Files and folders (natural):
find <path> -executable

Files only:
find <path> -executable -type f

== Delete files older than n days ==

Delete files older than 30 days: [http://www.vionblog.com/linux-delete-files-older-than-x-days/]
find /path/to/files/ -type f -name '*.jpg' -mtime +30 -exec rm {} \;

== Files Owned by User ==

Find by user:
find /var -user vivek

Find by group:
find /home -group ftpusers

== keywords ==

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