Script to remove files older than 30 days?

[Peter]

On Sun, 11 Jun 2006, Walter Dnes wrote:

>  This sounds like something that's probably been done for other
> reasons.  In Gentoo linux, source tarballs and patches are downloaded to
> /usr/portage/distfiles.  And they accumulate there.  I prefer not to
> blow them all away immediately.  There are often 1-line patches later on
> that assume the presence of the original umpteen megabyte tarball.  If
> it's not there, it has to be downloaded again, and the 1-line patch
> applied to it.  I think that the best approach would be to delete files
> after 30 days or so.
>
>  So is thare a generic "aging out" script anywhere?

find ... -atime -DD -exec rm {} \;  (man find)

Peter
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