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Find and remove Files in Unix older than the specified number of days

For finding the files older than 31 days

find . -name “filename.ext” -mtime +no_of_days -exec ls -ltr {} ; e.g   find . -name “*req” -mtime +31 -exec ls -ltr {} ;

Verify the timestamp of all the files.They must be older than 5 weeks For Deleting files older that 31 days :

find . -name “*req” -mtime +31 -exec rm {} ;

Verify after execution of the above.

Execute:  find . -name “*req” -mtime +31 -exec ls -ltr {} ;


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