Delete files that are ‘X’ days old

Sometimes ins linux, you want to clear out older files in a directory. One example could be if you have a security system and it continuously writes video files to a directory on your NAS until it fills it up.you have figured out that it keep a week’s collections of videos, there will be plenty of space for other users. So, here is a command that will delete all files that are older than seven days . So remember to execute this command with caution as it can delete your important data if not used correctly

find : This command will search for files.
/path/to/files : This is the top level directory to start searching
-type f : This ensures we don’t remove directories , but only files.
-mtime +7 : Removes files older than ‘7’ days. Change to ‘+14’ to delete files older than two weeks.
-exec : This indicates what to do with files we found.
rm -rf  :  Removes the files recursively and forcefully.
{} : This represents each file we find.
\; : This is the end of exec.
 
On successfully testing the above command you can create a Cron job to automate this task