[SOLVED] command to find and remove all files from /tmp direct that are older than 5 days old

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06-28-2012, 12:32 PM	#1
vaibhavs17 Member Registered: Mar 2009 Posts: 51 Rep:	command to find and remove all files from /tmp direct that are older than 5 days old I tried this does it look correct? find . -mtime +5 -exec rm {} /tmp/\;

06-28-2012, 12:50 PM	#2
montel Member Registered: Jun 2012 Location: Canada Distribution: Ubuntu/Debian/CentOS Posts: 45 Rep:	Try this: Code: find /tmp/* -mtime +5 -exec rm {} \; Source: HowToGeek Last edited by montel; 06-28-2012 at 12:51 PM. Reason: source
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