cron script that will delete old files from a directory

[pixelboi]

I need to write a cron job to run hourly that checks all files in a directory and deletes files that are older than 30 days.

id like it to also delete *.exe *.vbs *.bat type files as soon as it see them, any ideas? any help would be great, thanks!

 

[Guest_imported]

here is a ksh script I use. the last entry just deletes .log file the other directories are all file extentions hth

#!/usr/bin/ksh
. ~/.profile
#
# This scripts is used to clean out any files over 7,14,30 and 60 days old in the tmp directory
#

find $HOME/tmp -name '*' -mtime +7 -exec \rm -f {} \; 1> /dev/null 2>&1
find $HOME/out -name '*' -mtime +14 -exec \rm -f {} \; 1> /dev/null 2>&1
find $HOME/data -name '*.*' -mtime +60 -exec \rm -f {} \; 1> /dev/null 2>&1
find $app -name '*.log' -mtime +14 -exec \rm -f {} \; 1> /dev/null 2>&1

exit
~

 

[Guest_imported]

pay no attention to the bad comment in that script...

the tmp dir is cleaned out files 7 days old

out directory 14 days old

data directory 60 days old

and app dir .log files 14 days old

 

[pixelboi]

that will work! thanks!