RE: [cobalt-users] help - making a cron job to auto delete files, earlier than a specific date

[Ted Behling <TBehling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 11:11 AM 8/10/01 +1000, Tim Lawson wrote:
>I just changed the last line to read...
>find /home/sites/www.domain.com.au/web/pdf -type f -ctime +15 | xargs rm
>*.pdf
>
>Assuming I put the correct 'www.domain.com.au' in the line instead, this
>should delete all the files ending in '.pdf' if older than 15 days???

I would try it as:

find /home/sites/www.domain.com.au/web/pdf/*.pdf -type f -ctime +15 | xargs rm

I think the way you had it would remove ALL your PDFs. :( Make sure you
backup your files before trying it.

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