Tag Archives: find
26
Apr

Linux : Find All Files Older Than…

I recently needed to clean up a directory on my Linux box that included hundreds of files. I wanted to get rid of all the files that hadn’t been updated in over a year. At first I decided just to list the files by date: ls -lt This will list the files in long format by time [...]

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18
Jun

Using Find To Help Manage Files On Linux

We found a system administration problem on a  server today that was being caused by incorrect directory permissions.  Any email that passes through the server-wide spam filter was not going through because of permissions on the /home/<domaindir-here>/etc directory.  That directory needs to be owned by mail. Here is a quick way to update those directories: [...]

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