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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Auto delete the folder Post 302411184 by daptal on Wednesday 7th of April 2010 11:32:55 PM
Old 04-08-2010
first check the manual of find to see if you want to use atime, ctime , mtime .

Code:
 find . -ctime 14 -exec rm {} \;

Note before using rm do some check with ls to see if the output is what you desired to rm

while adding the entry in the crontab make sure to specify the full path of the commands you use if its not already set

HTH,
PL
 

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