Delete Files Older Than One year on Linux

By the time, many files are still on my system and I don't need them anymore, so how to delete all files that are one year old at least?

1 Answer

You can do it with this command

find /path/to/files* -mtime +365 -exec rm {} \;

Some explain

/path/to/files* is the path to the files.

-mtime is used to specify the number of days old that the file is. +365 will find files older than 365 days which is one year

-exec allows you to pass in a command such as rm.

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Edit Thanks to @Oli note --> you can do it by:

find /path/to/files* -mtime +365 -delete

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