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I huge uploads folder and tried to delete the old files eg. files older than 3 years or files added before a certain date but for some reason it ends up deleting both new and old files.

Here are the commands I tried so far

Command 1

 find /home/user/uploads -maxdepth 1 -type f ! -newermt "2018-10-14 00:00:00" -exec rm -v {} ;

This command removes everything ignoring the with ! -newermt or just - newermt

Command 2

find /home/user/uploads -maxdepth 1 -mtime +1095 -type f -print -exec rm -i  {} ;

It returned no result

Command 3

find /home/user/uploads -type f ! -newermt "2018-10-14 00:00:00" | xargs rm 

This returned an error "xargs: unmatched single quote by default quotes are special to xargs unless you use the -o option "

I can't figure out what exactly is wrong with the commands.. I'm running on a CentOS system.

So after playing with the commands for a while this is the command that worked.

find . -maxdepth 1 -type f ! -newermt "2018-10-16" -exec rm -v {} ;

These flags also helped incase you're come across this situation.

-maxdepth 1 

means only files within that folder

-newermt 

used for files modified on that date or after..

! -newermt 

used for removing files before the said date.

I also added the -v flag so I would see the output of files been deleted.

Thanks for all the help this saved me a lot of time..