The command to remove older than 7 days and it can be customised upto one’s convenience
This will remove all files under the path
find /path/to-directory/ -type f -mtime +7 -name '*' -execdir rm -- '{}' \;
for a specific type of files
find /path/to/ -type f -mtime +7 -name '*.gz' -execdir rm -- '{}' +
Explanation:
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find: the unix command for finding files/directories/links and etc. -
/path/to/: the directory to start your search in. -
-type f: only find files. -
-name '*.gz': list files that ends with.gz. -
-mtime +7: only consider the ones with modification time older than 7 days. -
-execdir ... \;: for each such result found, do the following command in.... -
rm -- '{}': remove the file; the{}part is where the find result gets substituted into from the previous part.--means end of command parameters avoid prompting error for those files starting with hyphen.
others :
find /path/to/ -type f -mtime +7 -name '*.gz' -delete
find /path/to/ -type f -mtime +7 -name '*.gz' -execdir rm -- '{}' +