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Re: deleting backup files dependant on their age
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Dan Espen |
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Re: deleting backup files dependant on their age |
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Mon, 23 Nov 2015 23:46:50 -0500 |
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Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> writes:
> If you want to try find(1), I "found" this site [1],
> and if I modified it correctly for your purposes it
> should be:
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> find ~/.emacs.d/backups/.*~ -mtime +14 -exec rm {} \;
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> Be careful with this command! Don't blame me if you
> wipe your disk. (Or you can blame me, but that won't
> get your files back.)
>
> [1]
> http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/ubuntu/delete-files-older-than-x-days-on-linux/
That doesn't work for me.
Try this:
find ~/.emacs.d/backups -name '*~' -mtime +14 -exec rm {} \;
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Dan Espen