Delete all files older than X days

7/27/2022, 11:55:13 AM

Sometimes you just need to prune a directory of all files older than a certain age. Think log files, or uploaded files... maybe ~/Downloads, perhaps?

find . -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -mtime +90 -delete

mindepth and maxdepth stop find from crashing if there are too many files
mtime specifies instructs find to filter the files by the last modified time. +90 means 90 days
delete is self-explanatory

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Delete all files older than X days