find /your/path -mtime numberofdays -exec rm -f {} \;
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Andreas

Update:

Once again I am humbly admitting that merlyn and tilly made good points (see below). So now we have three chief reasons (weapons) for a perl solution:

• efficiency,
• portability and
• an almost fanatical devotion to the pope (Larry) ;-))

Because that fires off one process per file to be deleted. The Perl solution fires off one process overall.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker

Portability? :-)

I use it b/c there are several file types that I'm looking for, and I need a log. Windows Find doesn't log, and I'm not sure that you can search out multiple file types. Plus, I'm lazy. I like one click.

Actually, you can do both.

To search for multiple file types, type something like '*.bat;*.html' in the search box.

To save the search critera, click File|Save Search. To save the results of the search, make sure that Options|Save Results is checked, then click File|Save Search.

There may be a way to save the results as a text file, but I'm not aware of it. I usually just cut'n'paste if I need something like that.

--Chris

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