7 May
2010
7 May
'10
11:36 a.m.
On 07/05/10 10:13, Mark Rogers wrote:
Starting in a directory on my server, I need to delete all directories below it which only contain files older than a certain age.
To be clear, I don't just want to delete old files; if a directory has any new files in it then I don't want to delete the older files that might also be in there.
Surely you just use find to return the directory timestamp as this will have been updated every time a file has been added. So directories that have a 6 month old timestamp haven't had new files added in 6 months.
What this won't cover is old files that have been modified recently, those will get deleted because the directory list will remain unchanged