From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: deleting backup files dependant on their age Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2015 01:58:00 +0100 Message-ID: <87twoc6wo7.fsf@debian.uxu> References: <874mgcebxk.fsf@skimble.plus.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1448326110 13949 80.91.229.3 (24 Nov 2015 00:48:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2015 00:48:30 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 24 01:48:14 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1a11mH-0002dp-0J for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Nov 2015 01:48:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35337 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a11mH-0008RW-Mb for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 23 Nov 2015 19:48:13 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59092) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a11m7-0008RN-33 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Nov 2015 19:48:03 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a11m2-0007n4-Qo for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Nov 2015 19:48:03 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:44481) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a11m2-0007mF-Jd for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Nov 2015 19:47:58 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1a11lz-00026s-3H for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Nov 2015 01:47:55 +0100 Original-Received: from nl106-137-244.student.uu.se ([130.243.137.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 24 Nov 2015 01:47:55 +0100 Original-Received: from embe8573 by nl106-137-244.student.uu.se with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 24 Nov 2015 01:47:55 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: nl106-137-244.student.uu.se Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:jiysFIFV0dgsJ9sgNGtBl+ASWLw= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:108207 Archived-At: If you want to try find(1), I "found" this site [1], and if I modified it correctly for your purposes it should be: find ~/.emacs.d/backups/.*~ -mtime +14 -exec rm {} \; 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/ -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573