we2aresame
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how to write a script remove files older than 5 days?
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how to write a script remove files older than 5 days? 1
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talisker123gjs
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To remove files older than 5 days, you can run the following command in the directory containing the files to be removed :
find . -type f -mtime +5 | xargs rm -f
find . -type f -mtime +5 | xargs rm -f
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