Delete directories older than x days
Posted by Kelvin on 04 Aug 2011 at 09:06 pm | Tagged as: Ubuntu
Great for cleaning up log directories.
find . -maxdepth 1 -mtime +14 -type d -exec rm -fr {} \;
Change 14 to the required age in days.
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