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How to delete all the files older than a date?

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I need a command for deleting all the compress files *.Z that are older than the current date - 5 days. Basically I have a directory where daily I meet some back up files and I want to remove automatically the ones 5 days (or more) older than the current date. How can I write a 'rm' command for doing that?
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find /directory -type f -name "*.Z" -mtime +5 -exec rm {} \;

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