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How to find and delete older files (older than 7 days) in a folder using a bash script? It's a folder in a server which contain automatic backups. Need to delete old ones automatically so there's space for new ones.


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#!/bin/bash

ssh user@machine "find /path/to/files/ -mtime +7 -exec rm {} ;"


name the script as some_file_name.sh and give execute permissions. 



 chmod +x file_name.sh


Run it as ./file_name.sh or bash file_name.sh


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