<yambe:breadcrumb>Shell_scripting|Shell scripting</yambe:breadcrumb>

find shell command

Find files older than given no. of days

To find files older than 30 days use:

find . -mtime +30 -daystart

Careful To automatically delete files older than 30 days use:

find . -mtime +30 -daystart -delete

To find files modified within last 5-6 days use:

find . -mtime +5 -mtime -6

There is also atime and ctime for access times and change times respectively. mtime used in above examples is for modification times.