Re: deleting backup files dependant on their age

[Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net>]

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:
>
>     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/

That doesn't work for me.

Try this:

find ~/.emacs.d/backups -name '*~' -mtime +14 -exec rm {} \;


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Dan Espen