Re: how to purge the files that are older than 90 days

On 7 Sep 2006 12:11:03 -0500, Richard Piasecki <usenet2_at_ogoent.com> wrote:

>On 7 Sep 2006 09:18:05 -0700, "muddu" <mudassar.dba_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>Hi All ORA DBA's,
>>
>>I am in need of a unix shell script that will purge(clean up) all the
>>files from history that are older than 90 days.
>>
>>Thanks
>>Muddu.
>
>This is standard Unix stuff, not DBA specific. Be very, very careful with this command.
>
>find ./ -mtime +90 -exec rm {} \; -print
>
>The above command deletes anything that hasn't been modified in the past 90 days in the current directory hierarchy. If you want a specific directory
>hierarchy, substitute that for the "./". For example...
>
>find /home/oracle/personal -mtime +90 -exec rm {} \; -print
>
>That command will delete everything under /home/oracle/personal that hasn't been modified in 90 days. Again, be very careful about where you run this
>command.
>
>
>--- Rich

Nah, of course he has a proper backup ;)

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