Command line: piping find results to rm

Question

I\'m trying to work out a command which deletes sql files older than 15 days.

The find part is working but not the rm.

rm -f | find -L /usr/www2/bar/         


        

Answer 1

Assuming you aren't in the directory containing the *.sql backup files:

find /usr/www2/bar/htdocs/foo/rsync/httpdocs/db_backups/*.sql -mtime +15 -exec rm -v {} \;

The -v option above is handy it will verbosely output which files are being deleted as they are removed.

I like to list the files that will be deleted first to be sure. E.g:

find /usr/www2/bar/htdocs/foo/rsync/httpdocs/db_backups/*.sql -mtime +15 -exec ls -lrth {} \;