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Ubuntu: Delete Files Older than a Certain Number of Days via the Terminal

For example, let’s say you currently do non-incremental backups of your data on a daily business. If you don’t keep an eye on it, pretty soon your backup folder will run out of space and your system would come crashing down – so maybe it isn’t such a bad idea to run a cron in the background that deletes unnecessary files that are older than a specified number of days. Continue reading

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