Setting Cron job to delete file after 24 hours

Question

I read all the related questions and was unable to understand them. I am using Plesk CPanel to set cron job as it was advised by everyone.

I want to delete all files fro

Answer 1

To optimize MrCleanX' solution a bit, use xargs:

find /some/path -type f -mtime +7 -print0 | xargs -0 --no-run-if-empty rm

Instead of calling rm for each file to delete, xargs packs many files together to a single call to rm

The -print0 and -0 stuff is to make both find and xargs using NULL terminated strings, which is necessary to handle file names with space and other interesting chars in their names.