Linux Find and Remove/Delete Files Older Than N Days

Feb 22, 2021

Remove files in current directory older than 7 days

find . -type f -mtime +7 -execdir rm -- '{}' \;

List files only

find . -type f -mtime +7 -exec ls -l {} \;

NOTE: Use -maxdepth 1 to ignore sub directories.

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