On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 09:53, James Melin wrote:
> I am wondering what string of commands are necessary to delete all
> files in
> a directory that were created more than 5 days previously. I know it's
> gonna be a compound command and/or script but I'm not sure what
> exectly to
> code.  Anyone have anything in their bag of tricks I could adapt?
>

find /tmp -mtime +5 -exec rm {} \;

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