Use Find Command To Delete Old Logs

25 Sep 2021

The /var/log/ folder usually will become filled up with old log files from logrotate. Here is a way with find command to clean and delete those.

Delete all files:

find /var/log -type f -delete

Delete all .gz and rotated file

find /var/log -type f -regex ".*\.gz$" find /var/log -type f -regex ".*\.[0-9]$"

Try run command without “-delete”, to test it.