Delete all files older than 30 days, based on file name as date

Question

I\'m new to bash, I have a task to delete all files older than 30 days, I can figure this out based on the files name Y_M_D.ext 2019_04_30.txt.

Answer 1

For delete file older than X days you can use this command and schedule it in /etc/crontab

find /PATH/TO/LOG/* -mtime +10 | xargs -d '\n' rm

or

find /PATH/TO/LOG/* -type f -mtime +10 -exec rm -f {} \