How To Delete Files Older Or Newer Than N Days Using find (With Extra Examples) | Linux Today

How To Delete Files Older Or Newer Than N Days Using find (With Extra Examples)

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Sep 12, 2019

This article explains how to delete files older or newer than N days, with extra examples like matching only files using a particular extension, and more. For this we’ll use find, a command line tool to search for files in a directory.

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