Am Mittwoch, 24. September 2014, 17:29:22 schrieb Gokan Atmaca: > Within a directory backup "tar.gz" files you want to delete older than 1 > day. > > I'm doing this as follows. But do not be. > > find /backup/ +1 -delete -mtime > > Can you help?
find /backup -mtime +0 -delete find counts days as integers. More than 1 day in integer is everything from day 2 onwards. (yes thats crazy, but that is how find calculates it. Use -ls instead of -delete for a test run. Ciao, -- Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/26638004.6Kn25MoDr0@merkaba
