This is the best practice to remove old unused files from your server. For example, if we are running daily/hourly backup of files or database on the server then there will be much junk created on the server. So clean it regularly. To do it you can find older files from the backup directory and clean them. This article will help you to find files older than 30 days.
1. Delete Files Older Than 30 Days
This command will delete all files older than 30 days in system /opt/backup directory.
find /opt/backup -type f -mtime +30 -exec rm -f {} \;
2. Delete Files Older Than 30 Days with .log Extension
If you want to delete only specified extension files, you can use the following command.
find /var/log -name "*.log" -type f -mtime +30 -exec rm -f {} \;
Above command will delete only files having
This only removes the files. What if you have a sub folders and you also want to delete these. What do you do then ?
How to delete files/folders from a directory older than a certain date?
Ex:- Delete all files and folders from a specified path older than 01-Jan-2018
How to find and delete files older than 90 days in linux?
Find has a ‘-delete’ option. You don’t need ‘-exec’ for that.
How to pass multiple files in name variable
example: -name “*.log”, “errorfile” , “result*”….
find: missing argument to `-exec’
Hi Adhir, Tutorial has been updated.
The situation could be frustrating and can go a long way to slowing down your system’s
speed. What do you do at this time? There is need to delete those unnecessary files.