USEFUL COMMAND RELATED TO OLDER FILE

Usually, it is very boring to do monitoring or housekeeping of file one by one. 

Below is example command that maybe useful.

1) I want to find oracle archive log files that older than 2 day

    # find /oracle/ABC/oraarch -name "*.dbf" -mtime +2 -exec ls -l {} \;

2) I want to move oracle archive log files that older than 3 day to dummy folder

    # find /oracle/ABC/oraarch -name "*.dbf" -mtime +3 -exec mv {} /dummy/;

 

3) I want to zip oracle archive log files that older than 4 day

    # find /oracle/ABC/oraarch -name "*.dbf" -mtime +4 -exec gzip {} \;

4) I want to remove oracle archive log files that older than 5 day

    # find /oracle/ABC/oraarch -name "*.dbf" -mtime +5 -exec rm {} \;

5) I want to delete 150 oracle archive log oldest files 

    # rm -f  `ls -tr /oracle/ABC/oraarch/*.dbf | head -150`