Cron Job to auto delete folder older than 7 days in Centos

Question

I have a folder with large files in centos and how to delete the files older than 30 minutes.

Please suggest your ideas and snippets

Possible duplicate of [Batch file to delete files older than N days](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51054/batch-file-to-delete-files-older-than-n-days) — Vadim Iarovikov, Jan 11 '18 at 09:04
How is this related to both *Linux* and *Windows ba**tc**h file*? Do you mean by **bash**? — , Jan 11 '18 at 10:58

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 11 '18 at 17:59

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It's simple. just use find and add the following line incrontab:

30 * * * * find /path/to/dir -type f -mmin +30 -exec rm -f {} \;

the above command will run every 30 minutes and delete ONLY files older that 30 minutes from the directory /path/to/dir

answered Jan 11 '18 at 17:59

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