Script to Auto delete files older than a few minutes in ubuntu

Question

is there a shell script out there that deletes all files in a folder that are older than x minutes?

Answer 1

This should do it, I've tested this with *.txt, but you can change it to all files using *.* instead:

#!/bin/bash
cd /usr/local/my_logs
find ./*.txt -type f -mmin +5 -exec rm {} \;

Answer 2

This will run forever, delete files modified more than three minutes prior to each iteration and wait one minute before doing it again:

while true
do
    find -type f -mmin +3 -delete
    sleep 60
done

You can add -maxdepth 1 if you don't want it to be recursive.

Answer 3

I use a script like this to delete backups older than 30 days:

find "/backups/mysql/" -type f -mtime +30 -print0 | xargs -0 rm -f

Based on that, I think you could do something similar:

find "/yourDir/" -type f -mmin +10 -print0 | xargs -0 rm -f

I think that would get 'em over 10 minutes