Is there a script if i use cronjob to run it, it will delete files in a folder only if the file is x days old?

I used something similar to the following, which might give you a start:


#!/bin/sh
dateago=`date -I -d '1 day ago'`
deldate=`echo $dateago | tr -d "-"`
dirdel="testdir"

echo "Deleting anything older than $deldate in '$dirdel'."

for i in `ls $dirdel`; do
dirdate=`echo $i | tr -d "-"`
if [ "$dirdate" -lt "deldate" ]; then
rm -f $dirdel/$i
fi
done


But check it carefully. I used to use this on a Linux box and I can't test it now as the 'date' command seems to take different parameters on FreeBSD.

dateago=`date -I -d '1 day ago'`
deldate=`echo $dateago | tr -d "-"`
dirdel="testdir"

would i edit these parts?

Yep, change dirdel to the path to the directory you want to delete things in and dateago to the date you wish to delete from (the example just uses things over 1 day old).

dateago=`date -I -d '30 day ago'`
deldate=`echo $dateago | tr -d "-"`
dirdel="/home/user/www/file/"

would this be correct for 30 days?

I think it's '30 days ago'.

Try doing a man date at the shell and that should help with the 'date' command.