How to purge more than X days logs in Linux

[jeesshnasree]

Hello Team,

I am aware logs removal with find command with removal specific days.

below command removal of name_of_log older than 90 days .

find . -type f -name "name_of_log" -mtime +90 -exec rm {} \:

What is the command purge  of name_of_log older than 90 days in Linux.

could you please share the command for purge command.

similarly , please share name of the logs nullify more than 90 days .

I am waiting for your valuable reply.

regards,

jeesshansree

[ricardodacosta · Accepted solution]

You could use:

find /var/log/ -mtime +DAYS -delete 

Which I wouldn't recommend because you will be deleting those files without validating them.

To see what those files are first you can use:

find /var/log/ -mtime +DAYS -ls

But a better framework to use is logrotate which is not a daemon, but a binary called by /etc/cron.daily/logrotate.

That binary uses rotation (including retention, and purging) rules defined in /etc/logrotate.conf and /etc/logrotate.d/

[jeesshnasree]

Hello @ricardodacosta ,

thank you for share the command and detailed description.

regards,

jeesshnasree