Delete files older than a specific date in bash/linux

oneshot (55) in linux • 7 years ago

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https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33091013/delete-files-older-than-specific-date-in-linux

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7 years ago by oneshot (55)

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evilest-fiend (47) · 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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oneshot (55) · 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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