unix sheel: how do I remove trace files older than x date ?

[khussain]

Does anyone have the code to remove trace files that are older than a certain date ?

[jrpm]

without knowing some particulars, a variation on

find . -new 'keeper file name' -print | rm

would work. (Substitute a real file name where obvious).

other variations would use -mtime, -ctime or -atime parameters of find.

[rfmm1]

find . -name *trc -atime +7 -exec rm {} \;

if on NT get there are some nt ports available of the common unix commands

[marist89]

There are lots of variations on find. man find will give you the details...

[alapps]

If your installation follows OFA, the following command will trim logs that have not been accessed withing the past 7 days...

*** replace ? with your database name (i.e ORCL) ***


find $ORACLE_HOME/admin/?/bdump -name "*.trc" -atime +7 -exec rm {} \;

[khussain]

Thankyou rfmm1 amd alapps,
that was exactly what I was looking for.