How to recursively find and delete files from Server after certain time?

How to recursively find and delete files from Server after certain time?

  July 27, 2018    ONES Consultants

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Introduction

You don’t have to write a comprehensive script to handle it but it can be done with just single command:

find /path/to/folder -type f -name "" -mtime + -exec {} \;

For example, we need to remove voicemail messages after 30 days from Asterisk or FreeSwitch Server.

Asterisk

find /var/spool/asterisk/voicemail -type f -name "msg*" -mtime +30 -exec ls -lhtr {} \;

Removing all voicemail messages that exists in server for more than 30 days:

find /var/spool/asterisk/voicemail -type f -name "msg*" -mtime +30 -exec rm {} \;

FreeSwitch

Listing all voicemail messages that exists in server for more than 30 days:

find /usr/local/freeswitch/storage/voicemail -type f -name "msg_*" -mtime +30 -exec ls -lhtr {} \;

Removing all voicemail messages that exists in server for more than 30 days:

find /usr/local/freeswitch/storage/voicemail -type f -name "msg_*" -mtime +30 -exec rm {} \;

It can be added in crontab to execute above command after every 24 hours:

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