Linux/Unix Shell Script – Delete files from a folder based on date

Say there’s are alot files being created in a folder and it causes full disk space problem, here’s one of the example to remove the files that is older that 2 days:

find /home/user/yourpath/ -mtime +2 -type f -exec rm -rf {} \;

Or if you want to maintain that as a scheduled cron job, here’s the example of full code that you can use:

#!/bin/sh

###############################################
## Shell script to run housekeep glassfish   ##
## delete server.log older than x days ago   ##
## Date      : 24-May-11                     ##
###############################################

##declaring variables
echo “HOUSEKEEP started…”
A_LOG_PATH=~/opt/yourpath/
PAST=2

find $A_LOG_PATH -mtime +$PAST -type f -exec rm -rf {} \;

ehco “HOUSEKEEP ends…”

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