Hi all. Is it possible to write up a bash script to automatically delete any items from the trash that are older than, say a month? Thanks.

-mtime +30 means find anything last modified more than 30 x 24 hours ago (ie, 30 days), then -exec passes that file (via the {} identifier) to 'rm -Rf'

No Guarantees! Try replacing '-exec rm -Rf {} \;' with just '-print' to make sure what it finds is actually what you want to delete first!

Thanks for that! It works brilliantly!

The above find command is all fine and dandy but you don't wanna type this in all the time...set up this command as a cron job. cron is the daemon which handles tasks on a regular basis, such as backups and time updates and deleting
.Trash folders

for this command you wanna do something like this:

which will bring up the crontab editor (for the current user, so if you want this system wide then be root when you do this)

once inside the editor you want the command format of
minute hour dayOfmonth month dayOfweek command
use a '*' for times you don't care about (such as what day of week)
example
will run the command at 4:42am on the first of each month

once your command is setup in crontab then save and exit
and you are set

Thanks for that! First time I've come across cron, it seems very handy! Aah...there's so many commands in Linux systems.

if the computer isnt on at the particular time the cron job is supposed to happen, will it be executed at next logon? or ignored untill the next time?

Without RTFM the man page I believe it'll wait until the next 1st of mth. Remember cron was really designed when Unix only existed on servers ie pretty much 24 x 7 boxes.
Otoh, you can '*' the day of mth field and/or pick a more likely time of the day...
Ah, the flexibilty of Linux

If your system has anacron installed, it will run any scheduled tasks that were missed while the PC was off... Can be good, can be annoying :P

Cron itself won't "backdate" scheduled tasks.