I will like to write a script that delete all files that are older than 7 days in a directory and it's subdirectories. Can any one help me out witht the magic command or script?

Thanks in advance,

Odogboly98

Hello !

The command is :

find /your_directory -mtime +7 -exec rm -f {} \;

Witt

Thanks witt for your reply,

That was realy very helpful. But how do you implement this command to scan through several subdirectories and subsequently remove files that are older than 7 days of those subdirectories.

Thanks,

Odogbolu98

Hello !

No problem to search file through subdirectories.

Look this :

DESCRIPTION
The find utility recursively descends the directory hierar-
chy for each path seeking files that match a Boolean expres-
sion written in the primaries given below.

This description is in the man. Any doubt, execute "man find" into unix command line.

Witt