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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting A Batch job to delete files from various directories Post 302193690 by BigBro on Saturday 10th of May 2008 04:31:49 PM
Old 05-10-2008
You can use something like this with a loop:
This will remove files that are at least 5 days old.

Code:
#!/bin/bash
DAYS=5
DIR="/var/mydir"

find $DIR/* -mtime +$DAYS -exec rm -rf {} \;

 

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