Use Shell Script to Delete the Files from Directory Based on Date Parameter
I have a circumstance where I want to remove all files older than 2000 from a directory. The names of the files are file1, name YYYY MM DD, file2 name YYYY MM DD, etc. Just as we have a lot of files in the directory, is there any way to delete files older than 2000?
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Dany· Answered on Feb 22, 2023
You should be extremely cautious when deleting files older than 2000. Finding a date depends on filenames that aren't actually a date is dangerous. It might be good to start with a find of all the files in the directory, assuming that everything is contained within it.
The favored method and the safest for removing files older than 2000 is still the find command. Making a file with the time-stamp within is one approach to accomplish this, like this touch -t 200001010000 /tmp/timestamp. Delete the files matching the timestamp using GNU Find (assuming they are in the current directory) now, for example: find . -type f ! -newer /tmp/timestamp -delete, or non GNU find : find . -type f ! -newer /tmp/timestamp -exec rm {} \;. Be aware that it will also destroy files generated at the precise moment of 2000-01-01 00:00:00.0000000000, which might be problematic for files whose timestamp was set arbitrarily.
Using a script to delete files is not always going well, the files earlier than 2000 may get lost by accident. You should not worry too much about the lost files, and we can still get them back by using a third-party file recovery tool – EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard.
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