sorry if this is asked before but, I was curious about what is the equivalent Linux command of forfiles.exe in Windows? This came to my mind when I saw this question
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1If you included a description of exactly what forfiles.exe does, those of us who know Linux very well will find helping you much easier. – MikeyB Sep 18 '09 at 21:01
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sorry, It's my bad not to explain what forfiles.exe does in windows; but a simple google search gives satisfying results on what forfiles.exe does. Anyway, I'm still ashamed of myself why "find" didn't come to my mind before asking this silly questions ;) – Serdar Dalgic Sep 18 '09 at 21:26
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@MikeyB, you could have followed the link to the other question. There was a forefiles description there. I updated the question to include a link directly to the technet docs. – Zoredache Sep 18 '09 at 21:46
find is the full-powered replacement, but for simple operations on files in the current directory this sh-script can be pretty useful (and easier to read/write) as well:
for file in *.jpg; do
echo "do something with $file"
done
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You could have spelled it "for files" ;-) [I know, then it wouldn't make sense.] – Paused until further notice. Sep 18 '09 at 22:22
The find command does what you want. Here's an example:
find /mnt/Pictures -name '*.jpg' \! -mtime 7 -exec rm {} \;
This will delete all the jpg files from /mnt/Pictures, which have not been modified in the last 7 days (168 hours). If you don't care about the case of the filenames use -iname instead of -name.
Here's a correspondence between the parameters of forfiles and the parameters of find:
/p→ the path is the first argument of find./s→ by default find searches in all subdirectories. To disable this use the-maxdepthoption with a value of 1, i.e.-maxdepth 1./c→-exec. Also replace@filewith{}and don't forget to end the command with\;(many beginners are bit by this error)./d→-mtime n. File's data was last modifiedn*24 hours ago
! negates the condition. ! is a special character under some shells, including Bash, so it needs to be escaped or quoted, therefore you'll write \! most of the time.
answered Sep 18 '09 at 22:25
I think find provides the functionality that forfiles offers.
answered Sep 18 '09 at 20:36
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Ah yes, thanks for reminding ;) I searched google a little bit and I think this should be the answer: howtogeek.com/howto/ubuntu/… – Serdar Dalgic Sep 18 '09 at 20:41
You can create a cron job that uses find with the appropriate arguments, e.g. -mtime +7
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