cron job for deleting files older than 1 week

[Jon Gale]

> I have strearipper recording my fave radio stations in to a folder for
> me to listen to later. Of course the folder fills until there is no
> space left on the disc.
> Could some one provide me with a sample script that I could run as a
> cron job and it would go through the streamripper folder deleting files
> older than 1 week (for example). Many thanks



If your files have spaces in the name you'll need to do something like this:

find /path -name 'stream*.mp3' -mtime +6 -print0 | xargs -0 rm -f

Jon
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