how to find file older than...

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2003-04-08 15:11, David Banning <david at skytracker.ca> wrote:
>
> I want to delete files that are older than 1/2 hr in a particular
> directory. the only way I can think of doing it is by doing a "test"
> and comparing the date to another file. I would then have to create
> -that- comparison file 1/2 hour before.
>
> Is there an easier way?

I usually rely on find to do this sort of thing:

    $ ls -l
    total 19281
    -rw-rw-r--  1 giorgos  giorgos       381 Apr  9 06:31 _get.sh
    -rw-r--r--  1 giorgos  giorgos  13406367 Apr  8 21:27 outlook.zip
    -rw-rw-r--  1 giorgos  giorgos   6309248 Apr  9 06:57 mozilla-win32-1.3-elGR-installer.exe

    $ find . -type f -mtime -2h
    ./_get.sh
    ./mozilla-win32-1.3-elGR-installer.exe

The -mtime switch accepts various units that I'm sure you'll find useful
for specifying time intervals, and you can even combine them as in

	find -mtime 3d15h

- Giorgos