RE: Delete files older than a specific date in bash/linux

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Delete files older than a specific date in bash/linux

in linux •  7 years ago 

Why did no one mention the -delete option for find, all that extra pipe and exec stuff is silly. Not to mention problems with spaces and special characters in names.

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      ·  7 years ago 

    frankly I even doesn't knew the -delete option. all top geeks* on the web always do the job by piping to exec or xargs... :-)
    *even the grandmaster nixCraft :)
    https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-unix-how-to-find-and-remove-files/

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