Here is a simple python script to delete files from the current directory that are older than 10 days,
you probably need to customize it a little to specify the files to delete.
#!/usr/bin/python # run by crontab # removes any files in current folder older than days_old days import os, sys, time def get_file_directory(file): return os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(file)) now = time.time() days_old = 1 #change this to how many days old files to delete cutoff = now - (days_old * 86400) files = os.listdir(get_file_directory(__file__)) file_path = get_file_directory(__file__) for xfile in files: print("Check :" + xfile) if xfile.startswith('0000'): #My Files stated with 0000 you can add other criteria here maybe xfile.endswith('.OLD') fullFile = os.path.join(str(file_path), xfile) #print("Path : " + fullFile) Remove the comment to list all the files to be deleted if os.path.isfile(fullFile): t = os.stat(fullFile) c = t.st_ctime # delete file if older than [days_old] days if c < cutoff: print("Will Remove " +fullFile + "to go ahead and remove the files please remove the # in the next line") #for now we will just print it #os.remove(fullFile) #comment this line to delete the files
Thanks to https://stackoverflow.com/users/1465704/xman-classical for the outline